Faster access than browser!
86 relations: Académie française, Adam and Eve, Age of the Earth, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Augustin Pajou, Biogeography, Buffon's needle, Burgundy, Calculus, Carl Linnaeus, Caspian Sea, Caucasian race, Cerebellum, Charles Darwin, Chinese people, Climate change, Comet, Comparative anatomy, Cosmology, Degeneration theory, Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie, Encyclopédistes, Ernst Mayr, Eskimo, Eurasia, Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, François-Hubert Drouais, France, French Academy of Sciences, French livre, French people, French Revolution, Gabriel Cramer, Georges Cuvier, Heart, Heredity, Histoire Naturelle, Iron, Jacques Necker, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, James Ussher, Jardin des plantes, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Linda Hall Library, ..., Louis XVI of France, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Mathematician, Monogenism, Montbard, Montesquieu, Moose, Natural history, Natural history museum, New Hampshire, New World, Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, Nicolas Desmarest, On the Origin of Species, Out of Asia theory, Pangenesis, Paris, Pierre Daubenton, Pigment, Preformationism, Probability theory, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Quadrupedalism, Quarto, Scientific Revolution, Sicily, Solar System, Sorbonne, Struggle for existence, Suites à Buffon, Suzanne Curchod, The American Naturalist, Thomas Jefferson, University of Angers, Voltaire, Wood. Expand index (36 more) »
Académie française
The Académie française is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Académie française · See more »
Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Adam and Eve · See more »
Age of the Earth
The age of the Earth is 4.54 ± 0.05 billion years This age may represent the age of the Earth’s accretion, of core formation, or of the material from which the Earth formed.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Age of the Earth · See more »
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and American Academy of Arts and Sciences · See more »
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 and located in Philadelphia, is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation that promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and American Philosophical Society · See more »
Augustin Pajou
Augustin Pajou (19 September 1730, Paris – 8 May 1809) was a French sculptor, born in Paris.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Augustin Pajou · See more »
Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Biogeography · See more »
Buffon's needle
In mathematics, Buffon's needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon: Buffon's needle was the earliest problem in geometric probability to be solved; it can be solved using integral geometry.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Buffon's needle · See more »
Burgundy
Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Burgundy · See more »
Calculus
Calculus (from Latin calculus, literally 'small pebble', used for counting and calculations, as on an abacus), is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Calculus · See more »
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Carl Linnaeus · See more »
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Caspian Sea · See more »
Caucasian race
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid or Europid) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, which, depending on which of the historical race classifications used, have usually included some or all of the ancient and modern populations of Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Caucasian race · See more »
Cerebellum
The cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") is a major feature of the hindbrain of all vertebrates.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Cerebellum · See more »
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Charles Darwin · See more »
Chinese people
Chinese people are the various individuals or ethnic groups associated with China, usually through ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship or other affiliation.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Chinese people · See more »
Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Climate change · See more »
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Comet · See more »
Comparative anatomy
Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Comparative anatomy · See more »
Cosmology
Cosmology (from the Greek κόσμος, kosmos "world" and -λογία, -logia "study of") is the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Cosmology · See more »
Degeneration theory
Social degeneration was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 19th century.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Degeneration theory · See more »
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Denis Diderot · See more »
Encyclopédie
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (English: Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts), better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Encyclopédie · See more »
Encyclopédistes
The Encyclopédistes were members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writer's society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Encyclopédistes · See more »
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr (5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Ernst Mayr · See more »
Eskimo
Eskimo is an English term for the indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the northern circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia) to across Alaska (of the United States), Canada, and Greenland.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Eskimo · See more »
Eurasia
Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Eurasia · See more »
Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
General Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, KG (1711 – 23 September 1773) was an English nobleman and landowner, a member of the House of Lords.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull · See more »
François-Hubert Drouais
François-Hubert Drouais (December 14, 1727 – October 21, 1775) was a French painter and the father of Jean-Germain Drouais.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and François-Hubert Drouais · See more »
France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and France · See more »
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and French Academy of Sciences · See more »
French livre
The livre (pound) was the currency of Kingdom of France and its predecessor state of West Francia from 781 to 1794.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and French livre · See more »
French people
The French (Français) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and French people · See more »
French Revolution
The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and French Revolution · See more »
Gabriel Cramer
Gabriel Cramer (31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752) was a Genevan mathematician.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Gabriel Cramer · See more »
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Georges Cuvier · See more »
Heart
The heart is a muscular organ in most animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Heart · See more »
Heredity
Heredity is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Heredity · See more »
Histoire Naturelle
The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi (French for Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet) is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749–1804 by the Comte de Buffon, and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his colleagues, led by Bernard Germain de Lacépède.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Histoire Naturelle · See more »
Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Iron · See more »
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker (30 September 1732 – 9 April 1804) was a banker of Genevan origin who became a French statesman and finance minister for Louis XVI.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Jacques Necker · See more »
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (baptised 25 October 1714; died 26 May 1799), was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and James Burnett, Lord Monboddo · See more »
James Ussher
James Ussher (or Usher; 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and James Ussher · See more »
Jardin des plantes
The Jardin des plantes (French for 'Garden of the Plants'), also known as the jardin des plantes de Paris when distinguished from other jardins des plantes in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Jardin des plantes · See more »
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Jean le Rond d'Alembert · See more »
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck · See more »
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, 1st Count of Maurepas (9 July 1701 – 21 November 1781) was a French statesman and Count of Maurepas.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas · See more »
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Jean-Jacques Rousseau · See more »
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach · See more »
Linda Hall Library
The Linda Hall Library is a privately endowed American library of science, engineering and technology located in Kansas City, Missouri, sitting "majestically on a urban arboretum." It is the "largest independently funded public library of science, engineering and technology in North America" and "among the largest science libraries in the world.".
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Linda Hall Library · See more »
Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), born Louis-Auguste, was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Louis XVI of France · See more »
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (29 May 1716 – 1 January 1800) was a French naturalist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton · See more »
Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Mathematician · See more »
Monogenism
Monogenism or sometimes monogenesis is the theory of human origins which posits a common descent for all human races.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Monogenism · See more »
Montbard
Montbard is a commune and subprefecture of the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne region in eastern France.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Montbard · See more »
Montesquieu
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Montesquieu · See more »
Moose
The moose (North America) or elk (Eurasia), Alces alces, is the largest extant species in the deer family.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Moose · See more »
Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Natural history · See more »
Natural history museum
A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Natural history museum · See more »
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and New Hampshire · See more »
New World
The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and New World · See more »
Nicolas Antoine Boulanger
Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (11 November 1722, Paris – 16 September 1759, Paris) was a French philosopher and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Nicolas Antoine Boulanger · See more »
Nicolas Desmarest
Nicolas Desmarest (16 September 1725 – 20 September 1815) was a French geologist and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'', in particular, the multi-volume Géographie-physique.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Nicolas Desmarest · See more »
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and On the Origin of Species · See more »
Out of Asia theory
The Out of Asia theory is a scientific theory which contended that modern humans first arose in Asia.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Out of Asia theory · See more »
Pangenesis
Pangenesis was Charles Darwin's hypothetical mechanism for heredity, in which he proposed that each part of the body continually emitted its own type of small organic particles called gemmules that aggregated in the gonads, contributing heritable information to the gametes.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Pangenesis · See more »
Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Paris · See more »
Pierre Daubenton
Pierre Daubenton (10 April 1703 – 14 September 1776) was an 18th-century French lawyer, politician, author and Encyclopédiste.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Pierre Daubenton · See more »
Pigment
A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Pigment · See more »
Preformationism
In the history of biology, preformationism (or preformism) is a formerly-popular theory that organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Preformationism · See more »
Probability theory
Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Probability theory · See more »
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly philosophy peer-reviewed journal published by the American Philosophical Society since 1838.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society · See more »
Quadrupedalism
Quadrupedalism or pronograde posture is a form of terrestrial locomotion in animals using four limbs or legs.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Quadrupedalism · See more »
Quarto
Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4°) is a book or pamphlet produced from full "blanksheets", each of which is printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves (that is, eight book pages).
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Quarto · See more »
Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Scientific Revolution · See more »
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Sicily · See more »
Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Solar System · See more »
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which was the historical house of the former University of Paris.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Sorbonne · See more »
Struggle for existence
The concept of the struggle for existence concerns the competition or battle for resources needed to live.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Struggle for existence · See more »
Suites à Buffon
Les Suites à Buffon is a French nineteenth-century scientific publication Les Suites à Buffon carries the complete title Suites à Buffon formant avec les œuvres de cet auteur un cours complet d'histoire naturelle embrassant les trois règnes de la nature, confié aux plus célèbres naturalistes et habiles écrivains (Sequels to Buffon Constituting a Complete Course of Natural History Encompassing the Three Reigns of Nature, Entrusted to the Most Famous Naturalists and to Skillful Writers).
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Suites à Buffon · See more »
Suzanne Curchod
Suzanne Curchod (1737 – 6 May 1794) was a French-Swiss salonist and writer.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Suzanne Curchod · See more »
The American Naturalist
The American Naturalist is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1867.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and The American Naturalist · See more »
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Thomas Jefferson · See more »
University of Angers
The University of Angers (Université d'Angers) is an institution of higher education situated in the town of the same name, in western France.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and University of Angers · See more »
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Voltaire · See more »
Wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
New!!: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Wood · See more »
Redirects here:
Comte de Buffon, Comte de Buffon Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de buffon, Count Buffon, G. L. L. Buffon, G.-L. Leclerc Buffon, G.L. Buffon, George Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, George Louis Leclerc Buffon, George Louis Leclerc de Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Georges -Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Georges Buffon, Georges Comte de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Georges de Buffon, Georges, Comte de Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count de Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Georges-louis leclerc, comte de buffon.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon
