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John Ray's Historia Plantarum is important to?

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Botany is the study of plants, including their structure, growth, reproduction, and classification. John Ray's Historia Plantarum, published in 1686, is considered a foundational work in botany. It was one of the first attempts to organise and classify plants on the basis of their morphological characteristics, establishing a formal foundation for the systematic study of plants and paving the way for the development of modern botanical taxonomy.
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