Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Also known as Buffon, Louis Leclerc, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Georges-Louis-Leclerc de Buffon, Georges-Louis-Leclerc de Buffon (comte), Comte de Buffon, George Louis le Clerc de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was an influential French naturalist of the 18th century who studied and wrote extensively about the natural world, including animals, plants, and the Earth itself. His work helped establish modern approaches to understanding nature and shaped how people thought about natural history during his era.
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- “La génie n'est utre chose qu'une grande aptitude à la patience.”
- “Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.”
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des Plantes.
Buffon's works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent French scientists 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.
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1707 births1788 deaths18th-century French male writers18th-century French mathematicians18th-century French naturalists18th-century French zoologistsContributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)Counts of BuffonFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFounder fellows of the Royal Society of EdinburghFrench fellows of the Royal Society