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The 5 Most Famous Botanists in History
Botany is the study of plants – everything from plant anatomy, to ecology, to ethnobotany. By its modern definition, botany is a field that originates from the 18th century.
Biography of famous botanist
Scientists started to create different classifications of plants and rigid systems by which to identify them. Of course, people had been studying plants for thousands of years before that. One of the first people to ever call themselves a botanist was Theophrastus of ancient Greece.
He wrote many books on plants, and these texts are some of the first recorded botanical works.
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Hundreds, if not thousands of important players, have advanced the field of botany since its origin. It’s hard to just pick a few of the most influential botanists of all time, but here they are: the 5 most famous botanists in history, in no particular order.
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Carl Linnaeus