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Sep 7, 2017 · Mingling with Voltaire and other Parisian intellectuals, Buffon was admitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1734 in recognition of his achievements in calculus and probability theory. He was also taken up by the Comte de Maurepas, Secretary of State of the Navy and of the Maison du Roi, who was impressed by research which he carried out on ...
Social degeneration was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries. During the 18th century, scientific thinkers including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Immanuel Kant argued that humans shared a common origin but had degenerated over time due to differences in climate.
Apr 7, 2024 · In later editions of The Origin of Species, Darwin acknowledged Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, ... and his theory of natural selection, co-developed with Alfred Russel Wallace, to shed ...
Sep 7, 2021 · Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) On September 7, 1707, French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was born. Buffon formulated a crude theory of evolution and was the first to suggest that the earth might be older than suggested by the Bible.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) Vol. II, plate XV: A drawing of a burning mirror that Buffon used. Burning mirrors could produce flames at their focal point and were used to achieve high temperatures in Buffon’s era. The Wenner Collection has a tremendous resource for historians of science in the 12-volume series of Buffon ...
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.
From Buffon’s Correspondence by Henri Nadult de Buffon, Volume I, 41-2. 6 Buffon was in charge of these 36 volumes (including seven “Supplements”). Eight volumes on fish and cetaceans were the written by Bernard Germain de Lacépède, but they are usually counted as part of Natural History: General and Particular.
