Buffon

Buffon
Author: Jacques Roger
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801429187

A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Buffon's Natural History of Man, the Globe, and of Quadrupeds

Buffon's Natural History of Man, the Globe, and of Quadrupeds
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 684
Release: 1858
Genre: Mammals
ISBN:

The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time, including what would now be called material science, physics, chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals.