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Carl Linnaeus's note-taking innovations
"I do not recommend drawings . . . in fact, I absolutely reject them"
Linnaeus’s system allowed naturalists to easily group and categorize the natural world, making it more legible for scientific inquiry. This practice was so common that readers of Linnaeus’s work bought interleaved copies of their own so they could record their personal observations of the natural world alongside the great naturalist’s. He began with the genus name and then progressed to describe defining characteristics including descriptions of the stamen (STA), the piston (PIS) as well as observations (OBS).
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