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 | | Accordingly, using a binomial system very similar to modern biological nomenclature, Gaspard Bauhin, a Swiss botanist of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, designated plants by a generic and a specific name. |
 | | Refining the principles of systematic botanical classification developed by the 16th-century Italian botanist Andrea Cesalpino, Bauhin was first to clearly delineate botanical species and groups of species, or genera, utilizing the concept of natural relationships, or "affinities," as criteria for his classifications. |
 | | Bauhin's brother Jean (1541-1613), also a physician and botanist, is known for his Historia plantarum universalis (1650-51; "General History of Plants"), in which he rendered elaborate descriptions of more than 5,000 species. |
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