Comte de Buffon
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Natural History
- Curriculum: 18th Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Buffon wrote one of the earliest multivolume natural histories that saw nature as a complete entity. He also worked toward a concept of evolution and geological change that would contribute to later investigators in the field.
Early Life
Georges-Louis Leclerc was born in the region of Dijon, France, from an upper-middle-class family, where his father was the lord of Buffon and Montbard. He was the eldest of five children and he grew up in a house in Dijon, where his family held an important position in society. Between 1717 and 1723, he...
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