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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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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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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Napoleon Bonaparte Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist Marc-André Leclerc (1992–2018), Canadian...
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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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(purely refractive) form of the lens was first proposed by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and independently reinvented by the French physicist Augustin-Jean...
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(including apes). That apes are monkeys was already realized by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the 18th century. Linnaeus placed this group in 1758...
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Social degeneration (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
During the 18th century, scientific thinkers including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Immanuel Kant argued that...
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citations] That apes are monkeys was already realized by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the 18th century. Linnaeus placed this group in 1758...
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singer Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French scientist Ginette Leclerc (1912–1992), French film actress H. Leclerc, French biochemist...
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problem of Buffon's noodle is a variation on the well-known problem of Buffon's needle, named after Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon who lived in...
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Jardin des plantes (redirect from Jardin des Plantes de Paris)
North America. Statue of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the formal garden The Sophora Jussieu, planted by Buffon in the garden in 1747 The...
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Clara (rhinoceros) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Petrus Camper modelled her in clay in Leiden. In 1749, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, drew her in Paris. In 1751, Pietro Longhi painted her in...
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name of the locality. Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton was a naturalist who collaborated with Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon on his Histoire Naturelle...
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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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The masked lapwing was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1781. The bird...
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
forms." Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon wrote an influential work in 1749, Natural History, that revived interest in vital nature. Buffon held that...
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list the bird in the genus Wilsonia. The French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon described the hooded warbler in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle...
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western plantain-eater was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1770 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen...
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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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Red-billed blue magpie (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
red-billed blue magpie was described by French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1775 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird...
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Works by or about Arthur de Gobineau at the Internet Archive Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de: Encyclopædia Iranica Joseph-Arthur (Comte de) Gobineau: UQAC...
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of Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1774) Frontispiece illustration from Johann Bode's Anleitung...
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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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The white-eyed vireo 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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Garrison Brinton Paul Broca Alice Mossie Brues Halfdan Bryn Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Charles Caldwell Petrus Camper Samuel A. Cartwright Houston...
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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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Polygenism (section Georges Cuvier)
defended the theory of polygeny by refuting French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's interfertility argument the theory that only the same species...
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publications by French ornithologists Mathurin Jacques Brisson and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. The vinaceous dove is now placed with 14 other species...
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account on "Le verdin de la Cochinchine" that had been described in 1775 by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his multi-volume...
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