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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des plantes.
Apr 12, 2024 · Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon (born September 7, 1707, Montbard, France—died April 16, 1788, Paris) was a French naturalist, remembered for his comprehensive work on natural history, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (begun in 1749). He was created a count in 1773.
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The History of Evolutionary Thought. Old Earth, Ancient Life: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. No single naturalist of the 1700s epitomizes the revolutionary changes that the Enlightenment brought to the study of nature more than Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788).
Jul 3, 2019 · Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon influenced Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's ideas of Natural Selection. He incorporated ideas of "lost species" that Darwin studied and related to fossils. Biogeography is now often used as a form of evidence for the existence of evolution.
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ジョルジュ＝ルイ・ルクレール・ド・ビュフォン. ビュフォン伯の肖像画. ビュフォン伯ジョルジュ＝ルイ・ルクレール （Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 1707年 9月7日 - 1788年 4月16日 [1] ）は、 フランス の 博物学者 、 数学者 、 植物学者 である。.
Sep 7, 2013 · However, he was more interested in mathematics than he was in the law and at the age of 20 Buffon (he was now calling himself Georges-Louis Leclerc De Buffon) discovered the binomial theorem. He corresponded with Gabriel Cramer on mechanics, geometry, probability, number theory and the differential and integral calculus.
Georges Louis. Leclerc, comte de. Buffon. Buffon. Naturaliste et écrivain français (Montbard 1707-Paris 1788). Par sa diversité, sa richesse, son originalité et l'influence qu'elle a exercée, l'œuvre de Buffon est d'une importance exceptionnelle.
