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	Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon
		De Buffon was born in 1707 in Montbard, Bourgogne (Burgundy), as bourgeois Georges-Louis Leclerc.
		Since 1725, Georges-Louis was holding the name Leclerc de Buffon.
		In 1753, de Buffon was appointed to the Académie française.
	www.panevolution.com /evolutionstheoretiker/buffon_e.html (403 words)

	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.
		Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, by François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775).
		Buffon performed one of the most comprehensive series of tests that had been undertaken at his time on the mechanical properties of wood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon (913 words)

	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
		Buffon also published Les Epoques de la Nature (1788) where he openly suggested that the planet was much older than the 6,000 years proclaimed by the church, and discussed concepts very similar to Charles Lyell's "uniformitarianism" which were formulated 40 years later.
		Buffon was born into the wealth and prestige of the French aristocracy and was educated in law and medicine, but his real interest was nature.
		Buffon's courageous way of looking at the world paved the way for subsequent revolutionary thinkers who are responsible for much of what we know about the natural world.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/buffon2.html (215 words)

	Buffon Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE hÃ´rzh lwÄ“ lÉklÄ•rkË kÃ´Nt dÉ bÃ¼fÃ´NË, 1707â“88, French naturalist and author.
		De Crevoceur hailed...revelation, citing a Buffon or a Blumenbach...Swiss-born Louis Agassiz, the...Count Arthur de Gobineau, whose...the zoologist Louis Agassiz of...
		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.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/buffon_georges_louis_leclerc_comte_de.jsp (958 words)

	Visipix: Complete 44 volumes of the Histoire Naturelle by Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
		Comte de Buffon, was one of the few who did.
		Buffon compared, what he considered the "most apelike" people, the Khoi-San from southern Africa with the orang-utan, which was considered the most humanlike ape at that time.
		Of course, Buffon was not without prejudice, and he regarded people of color as inferior to whites, though he was an abolitionist, which was relatively rare for the 18th century.
	www.visipix.com /sites/specials/buffon/buffon_start.htm (345 words)

	Amazon.com: Buffon: A Life in Natural History (Cornell History of Science Series): Books: Jacques Roger,L. Pearce Williams,Sarah Lucille Bonnefoi
		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.
		(Buffon never put this weapon to use, but his method of constructing concave mirrors is still used today.) But too much of Roger's text is given over to discussing the minutiae of Buffon's arguments with other scientists (in which Buffon was often wrong) and not enough to analyzing the significance of his discoveries and theories.
		Buffon was, according to the late French historian Roger, a man who loved money, power, and women, and who acquired all in great quantity through much intrigue.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801429188?v=glance (1153 words)

	Books Written By ... Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon - Medical Textbook
		Count de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, William Smellie
		Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Jean Varloot, Marie-Jean HÃ©rault de SÃ©chelles
		Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Marie-Jean HÃ©rault de SÃ©chelles
	medicaltextbook.com /textbooks/author/...+Georges-Louis+Leclerc+Buffon (108 words)

	Buffon's Needle - Georges Buffon
		Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon was born September 7, 1707 in Montbard, France.
		George Buffon was known mostly for his probability experiment known as Buffon's Needle.
		From 1749-1788, George wrote 36 Volumes of Histoire Naturelle, which foreshadowed later theories of evolution.
	www.challenge.nm.org /Archive/00-01/STI/finalreports/team16/man.html (68 words)

	Monte Carlo Methode
		Buffon ’s experiment (now known as Buffon ’s Needle) is performed by randomly tossing needles on a grid of equally spaced parallel lines of the parquet flooring.
		Buffon can be imagined as wading in needles up to his knees across as polished parquet floor.
	montecarlomethode.org /mcm_A.html (161 words)

	de-seve.txt
		One writer comments, "The illustrations to Buffon's original edition are exquisitely engraved and exude aristocratic elegance and charm.
		De Seve was more artist than naturalist, He was not content to simply portray his animals in a dry and factual manner.
		Beginning his career as both a mathematician and as a philosopher, Buffon turned to the study of the natural world in his early forties.
	www.mikelhome.com /newsletter/de-seve.txt (539 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Martinet Buffon Birds
		Georges-Louis Marie Leclerc, the Count of Buffon, was a French aristocrat of formidable intellect and achievements, including books on mathematics and natural history.
		Decades before Darwin introduced his theory of evolution, Buffon dared to challenge religious thought with empirical observations, suggesting that the earth was older than 6,000 years and that the physical resemblance between humans and apes might be explained by their having a common ancestry.
		Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle was his major achievement and an ambitious project characteristic of the 18th-century Enlightenment: a 44-volume encyclopedia attempting to include everything known about the natural world and widely disseminate scientific knowledge.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/nathist/birds/martinet.html (582 words)

	G.L.L Buffon - EvoWiki
		Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was a French naturalist whose works foreshadowed both evolutionary biology and modern geology.
		In 1788, Buffon also published Les Epoques de la Nature, which openly repudiated the idea that the earth is 6,000 years old, and hinted at uniformitarianism, which would be formulated by Charles Lyell some 40 years later.
		In his Historie Naturelle, a large encyclopedia on the known natural world, Buffon toyed with the idea of common ancestry for the old world primates and humans, and although believed in organic change, could come up with no mechanism for it.
	www.evowiki.org /index.php?title=G.L.L_Buffon&redirect=no (106 words)

	BUFFON'S NEEDLE EXPERIMENT
		Buffon's original form was to drop a needle of length L at random on grid of parallel lines of spacing D. For L les than or equal D we obtain
		P(needle intersects the grid) = 2 • L / PI If we drop the needle N times and count R intersections we obtain
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Quad/2435/buffon.html (53 words)

	Comte de Buffon -- Biography
		Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 7 September 1707-16 April 1788, French naturalist.
		Buffon, born George-Louis LeClerc (the name Buffon was inherited with an from his mother when he was twenty-five), was born in Montbard, France, the son of a Burgundian state official, and attended the Jesuit College of Godrans in Dijon.
		Buffon's work was always controversial: philosophers, scientists, and theologians found much to criticize in his works and their broader intellectual implications; some accused him of impiety.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Buffon/bio.html (410 words)

	Buffon: The Natural history of The Cat
		From these facts, M. de Lestrée seems to think, that, in the breast or stomach of the cat, there are some vessels filled with an aromatic substance, the perfume of which issues from the mouth.
		But this hunting must rather be ascribed to their general desire of slaughter, than to any kind of tractability or obedience; for they delight in watching, attacking, and destroying all weak animals indiscriminately, as birds, young rabbits, hares, rats, mice, bats, moles, frogs, toads, lizards, and serpents.
		It is related, however, that the Greek Monks of the island of Cyprus had trained cats to hunt and destroy serpents, with which that island was much infested [Descript.
	www.messybeast.com /retro-1767.htm (3248 words)

	Old Earth, Ancient Life: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
		Buffon’s theories were visionary yet doomed, because they were based on the relatively skimpy evidence that eighteenth-century naturalists had at their disposal.
		Their migration made sense of the discoveries in Buffon’s day of fossil elephants in Siberia and North America, while living elephants were only found in Africa and South Asia (see figure, right).
		Buffon realized that to interpret the world, he had to understand its history.
	evolution.berkeley.edu /evolibrary/article/0_0_0/history_06 (752 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Georges Buffon
		Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788), French naturalist, author of one of the earliest accounts of the global history of biology and...
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Georges Buffon
		George is located on the main road between Cape Town, 370 km (230 mi) to the west,...
	encarta.msn.com /Georges_Buffon.html (127 words)

	Jefferson’s Mangy Moosecapade: Fur flies between two eighteenth-century naturalists
		The problem possibly was that Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, was a product of the Old World, and in any discussion of the New World he found it rather hard not to turn up his nose.
		Georges Louis Leclerc speculated that our planetary system was created out of the collision of a comet and the sun, and, on the basis of backyard experiments with the cooling rates of chunks of hot iron, he concluded the world was vastly older than had previously been thought.
		Initially Leclerc's role was to catalog the royal collections, but with his ambition and dedication the task became an enormous, comprehensive plan to catalog all existing knowledge of natural history, geology, and anthropology in one book.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1365759/posts (2080 words)

	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Biography / Biography of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon World of Biology Biography
		Buffon had been so impressed with the upsurge of science in England that he dedicated the next couple of years to scientific endeavors.
		Buffon was born to an aristrocratic family in Montbard, France.
		The intellectual life of Dijon was active but not oriented toward science, so Buffon went off to Angers, a city in northwestern France, to study medicine, mathematics, botany, and astronomy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-georges-louis-leclerc-comte-de-buffon-wob (292 words)

	Nichols, "The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature", Romanticism and Ecology, Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
		Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, describes many of the animals he catalogues in terms of human passions and intellect.
		This essay will link discussions of plant and animal "pleasure" in the works of Erasmus Darwin, and in Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (often by way of Oliver Goldsmith, who introduced many of Buffon's ideas to a British audience) with the use of "pleasure" in poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats.
		Buffon's marmot "delights in the regions of ice and snow" (121).
	www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/ecology/nichols/nichols.html (5196 words)

	Talk:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I think this page should be moved to his full name and title, to be of the same form as Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck (144 words)

	Comte de Buffon
		Buffon did believe in the idea of the mutation of species, and was the first to suggest the possibility that all animals might have descended or evolved ultimately from a single breeding pair.
		Buffon discovered that animals of different species could be crossbred, but the offspring were infertile: he therefore defined a species as a group of animals that could produce fertile offspring.
		Buffon's portrait, that of a refined pre-revolutionary aristocrat, seems somewhat incongruous when set against his striking scientific innovations.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Buffon/buffon.html (308 words)

	buffon
		Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was the French naturalist perhaps most responsuble for the rise of European interest in natural history during the eighteenth century.
		Buffon was succeeded in his post at the Jardin du Roi by the Count de Lacepede, who did research on electricity and published The Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds and Serpents in 1788, the year Buffon died.
		Buffon resisted the detailed taxonomic classifications of Linnaeus, arguing instead for a natural history that was dynamic and inclusive.
	www.dickinson.edu /~nicholsa/Romnat/buffon.htm (417 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707)
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		Georges Buffon discovered the binomial theorem when he was 20 years of age.
		He is remembered most in mathematics for a probability experiment which he carried out calculating by throwing sticks over his shoulder onto a tiled floor and counting the number of times the sticks fell across the lines between the tiles.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=348 (265 words)

	Talk:Fresnel lens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]) Fresneltech (pg 2) claims that the famous Condorcet was in on it besides Buffon and Brewster.
		AZ State Engineering and (according to the snippet in the Google search) Encyclopædia Britannica, credit Buffon.
		My read is that the crucial idea of the segmented lens was not Fresnel's, not even as an independent reïnvention; his contribution seems to have been flattening.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Fresnel_lens (329 words)

	BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, Les Époques de la Nature.
		BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, Les Époques de la Nature.
		The rare literary skill with which, in his masterpiece, the Époques, he presented his views, enabled him to exercise a powerful influence on his contemporaries, to direct attention to the deeply interesting problems of which he wrote, and to give natural science a far wider popularity than it had before enjoyed...
		Nor were his services less conspicuous in breaking down the theological barrier which, after so many centuries, still blocked the way towards a free and unfettered study of the crust of the earth' (Giekie, The founders of geology, pp.
	www.polybiblio.com /watbooks/1726.html (724 words)

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	Table of Contents
		Masterpieces from the first modern compilation of scientific knowledge in the field of natural history (first published at Buffon's death in 1788), a work especially treasured today for the superb quality of its engraved illustrations.
		The animals depicted here in their natural environment include elephant, tiger and monkey; squirrel, fox and wolf; farm animals and favorite breeds of dog and cat.
		Each engraving has been carefully reproduced to retain the rare quality of the original.
	web.doverpublications.com /cgi-bin/toc.pl/0486277038 (75 words)

	Antiques : By Period, Style : 18th Century :
		This original, hand colored, copperplate engraving - Pic noir hupe, de la Louisiane - is from the "grand-papier" (folio) edition of Histoire Naturelle des Oiseauxi by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon with "planches enluminees" drawn by Francois...
		This original, hand colored, copperplate engraving - Martin-pecheur hupe, du Cap de bonne-Esperance - is from the "grand-papier" (folio) edition of Histoire Naturelle des Oiseauxi by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon with "planches enluminees"...
		This Magnificent Rare Pair of 18th Century Corner Marble Top Cabinets Commissioned for a French Chateau mid to late 18th Century, have a mark on the left front of the left cabinet and are in Excellent Condition.
	search.rubylane.com /antiques/,id=4.5.2,page=11.html (1291 words)

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