Download or read book Buffon written by Jacques Roger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Barr s Buffon Buffon s Natural History written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Buffon s System of Natural History Including the History of the Elements the Earth Mountains with Anecdotes and Illustrations from Later Writers Embellished with Eighty Copperplates written by George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.) and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The System of Natural History Written by M de Buffon Carefully Abridged and the Natural History of Insects Compiled Chiefly from Swammerdam Brookes Goldsmith Etc written by George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.) and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Epochs of Nature written by Georges-Louis Leclerc and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky, and many other renowned scientists. It is the first geological history of the world, stretching from the Earth’s origins to its foreseen end, and though Buffon was limited by the scientific knowledge of his era—the substance of the Earth was not, as he asserts, dragged out of the sun by a giant comet, nor is the sun’s heat generated by tidal forces—many of his deductions appear today as startling insights. And yet, The Epochs of Nature has never before been available in its entirety in English—until now. In seven epochs, Buffon reveals the main features of an evolving Earth, from its hard rock substrate to the sedimentary layers on top, from the minerals and fossils found within these layers to volcanoes, earthquakes, and rises and falls in sea level—and he even touches on age-old mysteries like why the sun shines. In one of many moments of striking scientific prescience, Buffon details evidence for species extinction a generation before Cuvier’s more famous assertion of the phenomenon. His seventh and final epoch does nothing less than offer the first geological glimpse of the idea that humans are altering the very foundations of the Earth—an idea of remarkable resonance as we debate the designation of another epoch: the Anthropocene. Also featuring Buffon’s extensive “Notes Justificatives,” in which he offers further evidence to support his assertions (and discusses vanished monstrous North American beasts—what we know as mastodons—as well as the potential existence of human giants), plus an enlightening introduction by editor and translator Jan Zalasiewicz and historians of science Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald, this extraordinary new translation revives Buffon’s quite literally groundbreaking work for a new age.

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Download or read book From Natural History to the History of Nature written by and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of readings, published for the first time in any language, presents a selection of critical responses to the original publication of the Natural History by George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1697–1788). Comments by Albrecht von Haller, Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Héault de Séchelles, and anonymous reviews from leading periodicals of the period are included. Substantial selections from the first volumes of the Natural History and important documents from Buffon’s earlier works are also included. As much as possible, the authors have used entire selections, rather than brief excerpts.

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Download or read book Buffon s Natural History Abridged Etc written by George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.) and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Barr s Buffon Buffon s Natural History Containing a Theory of the Earth a General History of Man of the Brute Creation and of Vegetables Minerals c From the French With Notes by the Translator written by George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.) and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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