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Georges Buffon's mother was Anne-Cristine Marlin and his father was Benjamin-François Leclerc.
Georges-louis Leclerc, as was his name until 1725, was the eldest of his parents five children.
When Georges was ten years old his mother inherited a large sum of money which allowed Benjamin Leclerc to become lord of Buffon and Montbard.
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 Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Buffon's father, Benjamin Leclerc, was a state official in Burgundy; his mother was a woman of spirit and learning, and he was fond of saying that he got his intelligence…
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As governor general of New France for two terms, from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698, Louis de Frontenac pushed the extension of that North American French colony west to present-day Manitoba and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
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 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author.
Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin.
His father, Benjamin Leclerc, was the Lord of Dijon and Montbard.
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Georges-Louis Marie Leclerc, the Count of Buffon, was a French aristocrat of formidable intellect and achievements, including books on mathematics and natural history.
While the theories he proposed to explain these phenomena were by and large incorrect, he correctly grasped that a new paradigm was needed.
Jacques Eustache de Sève was the principal artist commissioned by Georges Buffon for his Histoire Naturelle between 1749 and 1760, and also produced the illustrations for a work called Encyclopedie Methodique (1774-1832).
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De Buffon was born in 1707 in Montbard, Bourgogne (Burgundy), as bourgeois Georges-Louis Leclerc.
Due to a big heritage his mother made, his father was able to become a notable citizen of Dijon in 1714 and he acquired the village of Buffon in 1717.
Since 1725, Georges-Louis was holding the name Leclerc de Buffon.
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September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years).
The problem of Buffon's needle in probability theory is named in his honor.
The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.
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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de[zhOrzh lwE luklerk´ kONt du bUfON´] Pronunciation Key, 1707–88, French naturalist and author.
From 1739 he was keeper of the Jardin du Roi (later the Jardin des Plantes) in Paris and made it a center of research during the Enlightenment.
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Georges Buffon discovered the binomial theorem when he was 20 years of age.
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BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, Les Époques de la Nature.
First separate edition, rare: an 'epoch-making' work in the history of earth sciences, and of importance also in biology and mineralogy.
Two vols, 12mo (166 x 100 mm), pp [iv] 246 [iv] 264, with six engraved plates and two folding maps; one map slightly soiled at one fold, otherwise a fine, clean copy in contemporary mottled calf with contrasting lettering pieces, spine gilt, extremities a little rubbed.
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In the 1600s most naturalists believed the world was a few thousand years old and that species were created separately and organized into an unchanging hierarchy, with humans positioned just below the angels.
In the 1800s, Darwin described a world that was inconceivably old, one in which life gradually changed from one form to another without any need for direct supernatural intervention.
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"Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon." UMCP Exhibition Halls: Evolution.
O'Connor, J.J. and Robertson, E.F. "Georges Buffon." School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was an outstanding scientist in 18th-century France with a flair for publicity and grand public debates on a wide variety of topics now called natural science.
An extremely influential figure in Enlightenment science, he wrote the System of Nature, a 36-volume text that was the most widely collected work of the period; even more copies were sold than the works of Voltaire and Rousseau.
A dry yet thorough life of the Enlightenment philosopher and naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (170788).
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His conclusion that tests of small specimens (without further adjustment) cannot be used to predict the properties of full-size members raised a question that was to continue into the 20th century.
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BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE [Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de], 1707-88, French naturalist and author.
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This famous French naturalist was born Georges-Louis Leclerc in 1707.
Mindful of the boy's future, his father shrewdly acquired the holding of the village of Buffon, whose name Georges-Louis Leclerc would eventually assume.
Ironically, just when Buffon began using the name, he nearly lost it.
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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-88, French naturalist and author.
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So it has its ups but surely, also has its downs.
368 Animal Illustrations is a superbly rendered convenient archive of remarkable illustrations gatherd around 1766 by Georges-Loius Leclerc, Compte de Buffon, a natural scientist from Montbard, France.
Buffon's pictorials range from the domestic cat and the Great Dane to our more wild mamals, such as the unique looking Lion-Tailed Macaque, who belongs to the primate family.
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