Article: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc (17071788)

BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC (1707 1788)

BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC (1707 1788), natural historian. Born to an aristocratic family in Montbard (Burgundy), where he also received his early education, Buffon was originally directed toward a bureaucratic career common for his class. A chance meeting with a young English nobleman in 1738 led to a continental tour through France, Italy, and England. During this year-long sojourn, Buffon studied natural history and the new philosophical positions of Isaac Newton (1642 1727), the influential English natural philosopher and was exposed to the work of John Ray (1627 1705), England's most important naturalist. ...

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