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Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné, gave the puffin its scientific name, Fratercula arctica, in 1758. The same year, Linnaeus, who invented the binomial system and the classification of species, named human beings Homo sapiens. There is a plate illustration of the puffin in the Encyclopaedia.