1707–1788Frenchnatural philosopher most famous for his work Histoire Naturelle, in which he proposes a sequential history of the origin of the Earth and animals.
Keywords: natural history; geology; biogeography
Buffon, Georges Louis
Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: May 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002378
| Further Reading | |
| book Buffon GL (1770–1793) Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. 9 vols. Paris: Du l'imprimerie Royale. | |
| book Buffon GL (1785–1791) Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière. 54 vols. Deux Ponts: Sanson. | |
| book Lyon J and Sloan P (1981) From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and his Critics. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. | |
| book Roger J (1997) Buffon: A Life in Natural History, Bonnefoi SL (trans.), Williams LB (ed.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press. | |
