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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des plantes.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon (born September 7, 1707, Montbard, France—died April 16, 1788, Paris) was a French naturalist, remembered for his comprehensive work on natural history, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (begun in 1749). He was created a count in 1773.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, plus connu sous le nom simple de Buffon, né à Montbard le 7 septembre 1707 et mort à Paris le 15 avril 1788 est un naturaliste, mathématicien, biologiste, cosmologiste, philosophe et écrivain français. À la fois académicien des sciences et académicien français, il participe à l ...
Jul 3, 2019 · Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon influenced Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's ideas of Natural Selection. He incorporated ideas of "lost species" that Darwin studied and related to fossils.
No single naturalist of the 1700s epitomizes the revolutionary changes that the Enlightenment brought to the study of nature more than Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788).
Sep 7, 2013 · Summary. Georges Buffon was a French scientist who was important in the area of natural history. His needle experiment caused much discussion about probability. View six larger pictures. Biography. Georges Buffon's mother was Anne-Cristine Marlin and his father was Benjamin-François Leclerc.
Sep 7, 2017 · ‘The father of evolutionism’: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. For someone who would be among the first to examine heredity from a scientific viewpoint, the origins of a little boy born in Burgundy on 7 September 7th 1707 were not promising.
G. L. Leclerc, comte de Buffon, (born Sept. 7, 1707, Montbard, Fr.—died April 16, 1788, Paris), French naturalist. He studied mathematics, medicine, and botany until a duel forced him to cut short his studies.
The French naturalist and author Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, enjoyed international acclaim for the artistic expression of his own grandiose, often brilliant theories and for presenting in similar fashion the discoveries of leading contemporaries, particularly in the field of natural science.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788), usually called Buffon, was a French naturalist. He was also a mathematician, cosmologist and encyclopedic author.
