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Carolus Linnaeus loved plants. As a boy growing up in Sweden in the early 1700s, he wanted to learn the name of every flower, tree and weed he came across. Today, science remembers Linnaeus as "the father of taxonomy," the study of naming and classifying living organisms.

In the 1750s, Linnaeus published two books containing his suggestions on how to classify plants and animals. Before then, scientists in different parts of the world often gave different names to the same creature.

For example, some scientists referred to a plant called the briar rose as Rosa sylvestris inodora seu canina, ...

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