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Italian mycologist Pier Andrea Saccardo is best remembered for his monumental Sylloge Fungorum, the first 'modern' effort to compile all identified fungi within a single classification scheme. The existing history of mycology is limited and has primarily focused on developments within England, but this article argues that Saccardo and his collaborators on the Sylloge supported a vital transnational expansion of mycological knowledge exchange and played a crucial role in stabilizing the tangled knot of local naming and identification among the world's amateur and professional mycologists. Written in the 'universal' scientific language of Latin, the Sylloge served as an early database of fungal knowledge and symbolized a broader unification of mycological inquiry in a moment of expanded scientific correspondence. The article situates this proto-database in broader histories of big data in biology and shows how the Sylloge formed a globalizing foundation for the twentieth century's major collecting and taxonomic advances in mycology.
意大利真菌学家Pier Andrea Saccardo因其不朽的Sylloge Fungorum而被人们铭记,这是第一次在单一分类方案中汇编所有已鉴定真菌的“现代”努力。真菌学的现有历史是有限的,并且主要集中在英格兰境内的发展,但这篇文章认为,萨卡多和他在Sylloge上的合作者支持了真菌学知识交流的重要跨国扩张,并在稳定世界业余和专业真菌学家之间的本地命名和识别的纠结中发挥了至关重要的作用。Sylloge是用拉丁语的“通用”科学语言编写的,它是真菌知识的早期数据库,象征着在科学对应关系扩大的时刻,真菌研究的更广泛统一。这篇文章将这个原始数据库置于生物学大数据的更广泛历史中,并展示了Sylloge是如何为二十世纪真菌学的主要收集和分类学进步奠定全球化基础的。
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