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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.
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.
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).
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, plus connu sous le nom simple de Buffon, né à Montbard le 7 septembre 1707 et mort à Paris le 15 avril 1788 est un naturaliste, mathématicien, biologiste, cosmologiste, philosophe et écrivain français. À la fois académicien des sciences et académicien français, il participe à l'esprit des ...
For the full article, see Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon. G. L. Leclerc, comte de Buffon , (born Sept. 7, 1707, Montbard, Fr.—died April 16, 1788, Paris), French naturalist. He studied mathematics, medicine, and botany until a duel forced him to cut short his studies.
May 18, 2018 · Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was an eighteenth century naturalist who advocated the idea that natural forces worked to shape Earth in a gradual and ongoing process. By rejecting the widely-held notion of his time that Earth was shaped by catastrophic divine acts, Buffon inspired later geologists and naturalists to investigate and ...
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