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Celestino Mutis was born in Spain in 1732 and died in Bogotá, Colombia in 1808. He was a priest, physician, botanist, and university professor who studied medicine and surgery in Cádiz and Seville. He worked in a hospital in Cádiz for 4 years before being appointed personal physician to the viceroy in New Granada, where he fell in love with nature and proposed creating an encyclopedia on the flora and fauna of the region.

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