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No, taxonomy was around before Linnaeus. (Aristotle I think is credited with making taxonomy a science, but I cannot be sure.)

However, Linnaeus did create the system of taxonomy upon which the current system is based (i.e. the binomial nomenclature and heirarchical classification system).

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