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Are you a Kircher or a Linnaeus?
 Left: Snakes from Arca Noë by Athanasius Kircher, 1675 Right: Snakes from Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus, 1748 |  Left: Athanasius Kircher Right: Carl Linnaeus |  Left: Frontispiece of Magnes by Athanasius Kircher, 1641 Right: Title page of Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus, 1756 edition |
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 Left: Three Decks of Noah's Ark from Arca Noë by Athanasius Kircher, 1657 Right: Linnaean garden, Uppsala, Sweden, ca. 1745 |  Left and center: Images from Mundus Subterraneus, 3rd ed. by Athanasius Kircher, 1675 Right: Kingdom of stones from Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus, 1756 edition |  Left: Description of tarantula and tarantella from Magnes by Athanasius Kircher, 1641 Right: Insects from Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus, 1756 edition |
"The last man who knew everything"
1601-1680
"The father of modern taxonomy"
1707-1778
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