"Taxonomy as a branch of science took a great leap forward in eighteenth-century Europe and has remained a prime directive of the natural sciences ever since. The Swedish naturalist Karl Linné (1707–78, often known by the Latinized version of his name ‘Carolus Linnaeus’) introduced the now standard binomial (two-name) system for classifying plants and animals. Linnaeus’s system, though now outmoded in some ways, fundamentally influenced the science of classification during an age when European explorers sailed the world and brought home thousands of exotic specimens to be classified and..."
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