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  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author...
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  • are God's denials. Hold on! hold fast! hold out! Patience is genius. Count De Buffon, p. 444. A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not...
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  • temperature than in the present period of all-ruling and progressive frost; and Buffon and others have established on this idea their hypothesis of a vast central...
    49 KB (6,749 words) – 10:14, 31 January 2026
  • Gautama Budker, Gersh Buechner, Frederick Buffett, Jimmy Buffett, Warren Buffon, Gianluigi Bugaighis, Salwa Bujold, Lois McMaster Bukharin, Nikolai Bukowski...
    46 KB (2,926 words) – 08:39, 11 August 2026
  • observational confirmations of Newton's theory of gravity. Meanwhile, for Buffon at least, it established that when the world formed, it was molten. Martin...
    278 KB (37,403 words) – 08:57, 30 June 2026
  • preface [Buffon] had not sufficiently blunted his own criticisms, by betraying how little knowledge of the subject he possessed. Nicholas Facio de Duillier...
    186 KB (28,934 words) – 14:38, 15 May 2025
  • human being again will repeat the numbers that Messi is getting. Gianluigi Buffon, 2012 [55] He's been by far and away the best footballer in the world for...
    56 KB (6,447 words) – 04:43, 25 July 2026
  • Nevertheless, man, like some other animals, might live on vegetables. George Buffon, Natural History, trans. J. S. Barr, London: H. D. Symonds, 1797, vol. V...
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  • with by the fresh production of the earth. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Natural History, Vol. 6 (1807), p. 53 Born to destroy those beings which...
    228 KB (35,645 words) – 14:51, 16 September 2025
  • est donc ce merveilleux livre ? Est-ce Aristote ? est-ce Pline ? est-ce Buffon ? Non; c’est Robinson Crusoé. There is one book which, to my thinking, supplies...
    328 KB (60,789 words) – 18:20, 22 July 2024
  • hybridization effects. I was especially fascinated by his 1998 article on Buffon's trajectory from his early Platonic thinking to a historical viewpoint—partly...
    162 KB (25,223 words) – 22:32, 19 May 2026