where did the idea of codification come from
Codification (law) Ancient Sumer's Code of Ur-Nammu was compiled circa 2050â€“1230 BC, and is the earliest known surviving civil code. Three centuries later, the Babylonian king Hammurabi enacted the set of laws named after him.
Doctrine of signatures Paracelsus (1493–1541) developed the concept, writing that "Nature marks each growth ... according to its curative benefit",[1] and it was followed by Giambattista della Porta in his Phytognomonica (1588).