One can easily miss the revolutionary novelty of this technology, given that in Robinson Crusoe there was not much around to name, and thus the sheer abundance it makes possible is not fully evident. But if Man proves his humanity through the act of naming, it is reasonable that he should want to name as much as possible, as quickly as possible. This is a natural consequence of naming becoming the hallmark of human powers. In the wake of Robinson Crusoe, Linnaeus and his traveling pupils mobilized the revolutionary consequences of this technology of naming. In fact, Linnaeus understood the power of naming better than any other scientist of his day. His Systema naturae, the first edition of which appeared in 1735, staked out the principles for naming every living organism. Using a technology, just like Robinson Crusoe, Linnaeus invented an infinite principle of naming. He did what Adam did in Genesis, but unlike Adam, he did not have to sit and let the animals pass before him. Instead, he took his cue from the same principle as Crusoe: once he was able to work out a technology, he was in a position to name all the species of the universe, without having to pronounce their names or even, for that matter, to see them.