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I think that as Linnaeus was trying to apply some sort of order to the natural world around him that it is very logical that he would name specimens found in the immediate neighbourhood, .
Many have tried to classify nature before Linnaeus but did not succeeded.
Like escimos, they have only one clas to plants, and it is "flower". For snow they had 28 classes with which they informed important thigs to each other.
Classification is an essential basic of human communication. It means not to put things in order.
http://atbi.eu/summerschool/files/summerschool/Manktelow_Syllabus.pdf
"In the Eastern world, one of the earliest pharmacopoeias was written by Shen Nung, Emperor of
China around 3000 BC (Fig. 1). He was a legendary emperor known as the Father of Chinese
medicine and is believed to have introduced acupuncture. He wanted to educate his people in
agriculture and medicine and is said to have tasted hundreds of herbs to test their medicinal value.
The pharmacopoeia Divine Husbandman's".
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