Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
1707-1788
French natural historian and mathematician who is primarily remembered for his encyclopedic Natural History (Histoire naturelle, générale et ...
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Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
1707-1788
French Geologist and Naturalist
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, is referred to as Buffon. He is primarily remembered for his encyclopedic Natur...
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Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De (1707-1788)
French naturalist
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was an eighteenth century naturalist who advocated the idea that natural forces worked to s...
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Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De(1707–1788)
The French naturalist and author Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, enjoyed international acclaim for the artistic expression of his own ...
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The French naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), wrote the major general work on natural history of the 18th century and made the Royal Garden in Paris a center for scientific...
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Buffon was born to an aristrocratic family in Montbard, France. His affluent background allowed him to travel extensively and pursue a number of fields before he developed a passionate interest in nat...
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Buffon was born to an aristrocratic family in Montbard, France. His affluent background allowed him to travel extensively and pursue a number of fields before he developed a passionate interest in nat...
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Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon published works in all fields of natural history, as well as in mathematics and astronomy. His seminal work, Histoire Naturelle (Natural History), was based upon an ext...
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