Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Naturalist (7-Sep-1707 16-Apr-1788) SUBJECT OF BOOKS
A. de Chesnel. Vie de Buffon. Paris, France: Librairie de Debécourt. 1843. 425pp. Language: French. Louis Dimier. Buffon. Paris: Nouvelle Librairie Nationale. 1919. 308pp. Otis E. Fellows; Stephen F. Milliken. Buffon. New York: Twayne. 1972. 186pp. Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens. Histoire des Travaux et des Idés de Buffon. Paris, France: L. Hachette. 1850. 363pp. Language: French. Jeff Loveland. Rhetoric and Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and Literary Context. Oxford, UK: Voltaire Foundation. 2001. 214pp. John Lyon; Phillip R. Sloan. From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics. University of Notre Dame Press. 1981. 406pp. Jacques Roger. Buffon: A Life in Natural History. Cornell University Press. 1997. 492pp.
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