Buffon's Natural History
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Rating | : | 4.70 (645 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0559038216 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 460 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-11-04 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
THE MAJOR WORK OF AN EARLY PRE-DARWINIAN NATURALIST Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was a French naturalist and author. His "Natural History" of 35 volumes was very controversial in its day, but presented an encyclopedic view of the history of the world and life that basically ignored the biblical account, and argued that, say, all the world's quadrupeds developed from an original smaller set; therefore, he is seen as a precurso
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