Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

It's called binomial nomenclature, and it's how scientists classify species of living

organisms.

When someone describes a great white shark as a carcarrot-on, carcarius, they're using

binomial nomenclature.

In fact, your average four-year-old probably knows all about the tyrannosaurus rex, one

of the few things to be known only by its Latin classification.

And for this naming system, we have one homosapian to think.

Carolas Leneas, also known as Carl.

A Swedish botanist and scientist, Carl is often considered the father of modern taxonomy.

He spent his years in Sweden studying nature and lecturing students on the subject of

botany.

In the 1740s, he traveled throughout his homeland, collecting different types of plants,

and naming them according to his new system, eventually publishing his findings across

several books.

The Carl had another book, one that he kept outside of his scientific wheelhouse.

He called it the nemesis divina, and he treated it as a hybrid journal and commonplace book,

a way for him to explore the things that couldn't be explained in the classroom.

He wanted to know how so much horror and tragedy occurred in a world that believed in

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