Pliny

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Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on Earth."^[6] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: "With the exception of William Shakespeare and Baruch Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly."^[6] Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: "Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist."^[7] Linnaeus has been called Princeps botanicorum (Prince of Botanists) and "The Pliny of the North".^[8] He is also considered one of the founders of modern ecology.^[9]