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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste.
His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his "Histoire Naturelle" during his lifetime; with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death.
Ernst Mayr wrote that
1697–1732)
Eighteenth century.
Eighteenth century 1700–1749.
- Charles Pinot Duclos (1704–1772)
- Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon, fils) (1707–1777)
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon) (1707–1788)
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751)
- Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709–1785)
- Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777)
- Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784)
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