Gaspard Bauhin

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhin (17 January 1560, Basel - 5 December 1624, Basel), was a Swiss botanist who wrote Pinax theatri botanici (1596), which described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus. He was a disciple of the famous Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale and he also worked on human anatomical nomenclature. Jean and Gaspard were the sons of Jean Bauhin (1511-1582), a French physician who had to leave his native country on becoming a convert to Protestantism.