Buf·fon (b -fô  ), Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de 1707-1788. French naturalist whose monumental Histoire Naturelle (36 volumes, 1749-1788; 8 additional volumes completed by assistants and published in 1804) laid the foundation for later studies in biology, zoology, and comparative anatomy. |
Buffon (French) [byfɔ̃]
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(Biographies / Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788) M, French, WRITING: encyclopedist) Georges Louis Leclerc (ʒɔrʒ lwi ləklɛr), Comte de. 1707-88, French encyclopedist of natural history; principal author of Histoire naturelle (36 vols., 1749-89), containing the Époques de la nature (1777), which foreshadowed later theories of evolution
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