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Carolus Linnaeus, engraving from Robert John Thornton's The Temple of Flora (1807).
Carolus Linnaeus began using binomial names consistently in print following the publication of his landmark work, Species Plantarum, in 1753.1
While Linnaeus had previously experimented with these "trivial" names as a form of shorthand for field observations, it was the 1753 publication that established the system as his standard method for naming organisms. This work, along with the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae (1758), serves as the official starting point for modern botanical and zoological nomenclature.1