Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) by Buffon
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"Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10)" by Buffon is an encyclopedic work published in 1760 as part of a monumental 36-volume series spanning 1749-1804. This volume continues Buffon's systematic exploration of quadrupeds, documenting what was known about four-legged animals in the 18th century. Part of a groundbreaking collection that challenged biblical timelines and introduced secular approaches to natural history, the work combines detailed animal descriptions with comparative anatomy. Buffon's ambitious project
laid foundations for evolutionary thinking and transformed how scientists understood the natural world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Barr, James Smith |
| Title |
Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_Naturelle |
| Credits |
Produced by Chris Curnow, Tom Cosmas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 53.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | QH: Science: Natural history |
| Subject | Natural history |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 45821 |
| Release Date | May 29, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 436 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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