Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician...
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Buffon may refer to: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French naturalist Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978), Italian football goalkeeper Lorenzo...
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planning to practice as a physician. At about this time, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, also a native of Montbard, was preparing to bring out a multi-volume...
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the army of King Louis XIV of France and the French cavalry. François Robichon de La Guérinière and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon said the Limousin...
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Guillaume François de Cepoy and Élisabeth Amaranthe Jogues de Martinville and married count Georges Louis Marie Leclerc de Buffon (1764-1794) in 1784;...
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England. February 27 – French scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study correlating past weather...
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publications of his contemporaries, such as the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, but it is chiefly Hutton's pioneering work that established...
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Ruby-topaz hummingbird (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Male in flight Female in flight Female (left) Male Male by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788) BirdLife International (2016). "Ruby-topaz Hummingbird...
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des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon from 1761. He was a close friend of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, the naturalist who wrote the Histoire...
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probability theory, Buffon's needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon: Suppose we have a...
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on race during the 18th century included Henri de Boulainvilliers and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon. During this time, the project to create a natural...
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French pirate Fud Leclerc (1924–2010), Belgian singer Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French scientist Ginette Leclerc (1912–1992), French...
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they grew. In 1737, French investigators Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon examined the effect of growing conditions on...
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the 18th century, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, was critical of this natural theology in his masterwork Histoire Naturelle. Buffon rejected the idea...
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27 – French scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study correlating past weather conditions...
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Psittacus moluccanus. Gmelin cited the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon who in 1779 had published a description of "La Perruche...
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also investigated growth of the trees in cooperation with Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon. From 1740 he also started focusing on meteorological problems...
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and J. Hooke, at the Flower-de-Luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1755). Histoire Naturelle; Générale...
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French name L'aigle de Pondichery. The brahminy kite was included by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle...
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des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon. At the request of the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Guéneau became a contributor to the Histoire...
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Françoise Bouvier de la Mothe de Cépoy, comtesse de Buffon, Victor Leclerc de Buffon (6 September 1792 – 20 April 1812), known as the chevalier de Saint-Paul...
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Cassini's theory and his works were translated in French by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon. He died in Rome, aged 59, in 1689. Gottignies, Gilles François...
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Temminck (1778–1858), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857) and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788). He worked on the birds from the voyage of La Venus...
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Common green magpie (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
181–182. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Rollier, de la Chine"...
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Malabar pied hornbill (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Malabar pied hornbill was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird...
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society, a theory also promoted by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. By placing an emphasis on environmental influences as a...
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2021. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1770). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 41–42. Buffon, Georges-Louis...
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Grey-headed chickadee (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
173–174. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Mésange de Siberie"...
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l'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 669–670. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783)....
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The tufted coquette was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1781 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird...
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