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Caspar Bauhin's 'Pinax Theatri botanici' is a monumental technical reference work that serves as an index of botanical synonyms and nomenclature for approximately 6,000 plants. Because it functions primarily as a scholarly concordance for specialists, it has never been translated into English; it remains a foundational Latin text used by botanical historians and taxonomists in its original form.
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Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax serves as the definitive botanical master key of the seventeenth century. Readers will uncover how a single physician organized the wild, chaotic knowledge of the plant kingdom into a coherent, global system.
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