BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE

zhôrzh lwē ləklĕrkˈ kôNt də büfôNˈ, 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. He devoted his life to his monumental Histoire naturelle (44 vol., 1749–1804), a popular and brilliantly written compendium of data on natural history interspersed with Buffon's own speculations and theories. Of this work, the volumes Histoire naturelle des animaux and Époques de la nature are of special interest. His famous Discours sur le style was delivered (1753) on his reception into the French Academy. He also contributed to the mathematics of probability.

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Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science
Book by Edward Lurie; University of Chicago Press, 1960
Subjects: Agassiz, Louis--1807-1873
...men tioned, 79 , 98 , 300 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de: definition of species...105 -6. See also Agassiz, Louis: evolution idea, philos ophy...mentioned, 354 . See also Agassiz, Louis: philoso phy of nature; Development...
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Victims, Authority, and Terror: The Parallel Deaths of d'orlaeans, Custine, Bailly, and Malesherbes
Book by George Armstrong Kelly; University of North Carolina Press, 1982
Subjects: Bailly, Jean Sylvain--1736-1793, Custine, Adam Philippe--comte de--1740-1793, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Biography, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes, Malesherbes, Chretien Guillaume de Lamoignon de--1721-1794, Orleans, Louis Philippe Joseph--duc d'--1747-1793
...Charles-Louis-Victor, comte de, 94 , 112 Broglie, Victor...116 , 122 , 129 , 143 , 286 Buffon, Agnes de, 34 , 45 , 64 , 79 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de, 149 , 153 , 154 , 155...
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Spectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fete Imperiale, 1849-1870
Book by Matthew Truesdell; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: France--Cultural Policy, France--Politics And Government--1848-1870--Social Aspects, Mass Media And Public Opinion--France--History--19th Century, Napoleon--Iii--Emperor Of The French--1808-1873--Influence, Rites And Ceremonies--France--History--19th Century, Symbolism In Politics
...A statue of the eighteenth-century naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, in his native Montbard, for example, had actually...shortly before the restoration of the Empire, when Louis-Napoleon set the first stone of the new cathedral...
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A Modern Maistre: The Social and Political Thought of Joseph de Maistre
Book by Owen Bradley; University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Subjects: Maistre, Joseph Marie--Comte De--1753-1821--Contributions In Political Science, Maistre, Joseph Marie--Comte De--1753-1821--Contributions In Sociology
...Blanchot, Maurice, xi Blanc, Louis, 212 blood, 33 , 104 , 154...70 Bodin, Jean, 118 Bonald, Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise, vicomte...xiv Bray, Gabriel de, 62 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de, 54 Burke, Edmund, xiv...
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The French Revolution - Vol. 1
Book by Georges Lefebvre, Elizabeth Moss Evanson; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
...Brest, 125 , 237 Breteuil, Louis Charles Auguste le Tonnelier...228 ; equal rights and, 231 ; Louis XVI and, 234 , 235 , 271 ; Robespierres...211 Buda, 248 Buenos Aires, 7 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 57 Bug river, 14 , 199...
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Rue Cuvier, Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Rue Lamarck: Politics and Science in the Streets of Paris
Journal article by Freeman G. Henry; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Cuvier, Georges-Leopold-Chretien-Frederic-Dagobert, Baron--Appreciation, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne--Appreciation, Larmarck, Jean Baptiste--Appreciation, Paris, France--History, Scientists--Appreciation, Street names--History
...founded during the reign of Louis XIII as an herbarium to serve...Joseph, 1704-1779), and Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) who served as...zoologist and paleontologist baron Georges Cuvier who had died six years...
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Chevreul and Impressionism: a Reappraisal
Journal article by Georges Roque; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 78, 1996
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Chevreul, Michel-Eugene (1786-1889), Color, Monet, Claude (1840-1926), Pissarro, Camille, Theory, Visual artists
...32. 55. E. Bernard, "Louis Anquetin." Gazzette des Beaux...blue, but constantly blue"; Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, "Sur les couleurs accidentelles...Recherche Scientifique, Paris, Georges Roque is currently a visiting...
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The Republic of Beavers: An American Utopia
Journal article by Arnold L. Kerson; Utopian Studies, Vol. 11, 2000
Subjects: Landivar y Caballero, Rafael--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rusticatio Mexicana (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in literature--Latin America
...the same subject in Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffons Histoire...The impression that Buffon and Valmont de Bomare...1985): 9-30. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de. Histoire naturelle...Stephen F. Milliken. Buffon. New York: Twayne...
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The Beaver and His Cousin in Cooper's the Last of the Mohicans
Journal article by Edward W. Pitcher; American Notes & Queries, Vol. 8, 1995
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Philology, Motion Pictures
...The Contemplation of Nature . 2 vols. London: T. Longman, T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1766 . Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de. Natural History . Trans. by William Smellie. 2nd Edition. 9 vols. London: Printed for W. Strahan...
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Darwin's Shadow: Context and Reception in the Western World
Journal article by Muzaffar Iqbal; Islam & Science, Vol. 6, 2008
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, Evolution, Evolution (Biology), Geology, Scientists, The Descent of Man (Book)
...individuals belonging to it.Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), the...G.L.L. de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle...remaining were the work of Comte de Lacepede (1756...at http://www.buffon.cnrs. fr/; digital...
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magazine articles on: Buffon Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De  - 3 results

 
 
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Linnaeus's Luck?
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 109, September 2000
Subjects: Animals, Biology, Classification, Darwin, Charles (1809-82), Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-78)
...In maximal contrast, the great Swiss zoologist Louis Agassiz exalted taxonomy as the highest possible...contemporary and archrival, Frances celebrated naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-88), had struggled through more than...
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Darwin's Origin Transforms Culture
Magazine article by Peter W. Graham; World and I, Vol. 14, August 1999
Subjects: Darwin, Charles--Criticism and interpretation, Human evolution--Criticism and interpretation, Sociobiology--Criticism and interpretation
...gradual transformation of living things were his own grandfather, Erasmus, and the French naturalists Georges-Louis Leclerc (Comte de Buffon) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Of the three, Lamarck offered the most systematic and persuasive theory...
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Humanist Potpourri
Magazine article by Warren Allen Smith; Free Inquiry, Vol. 15, Fall 1995
Subjects: American Academy of Arts and Letters--Membership, Humanists--Associations and societies
...Berthelot (1827-1907), chemist; Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1707-1788), deist; Jean...historian of pagan philosophy; Georges Duhamel (1884-1966), novelist...ferocious nomads"; Baron Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689...


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A Sweeter Malteaser; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 11, 2011
Subjects: Concerts
...this - many insects can live and interact for days after decapitation. The great French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, the Comte de Buffon, noted the hippobosca, equina, or horsefly, will live, run, nay, even copulate, after being...


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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE zhorzh lwe l klerk koNt d bufoN , 1707 88, French naturalist and author. From 1739 he was keeper of the Jardin du Roi (later...


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