#comte de buffon

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"The Frigat Pelican": a print from the 1812 Natural History of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

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Explore Thomas Jefferson's George Costanza moment, when he had a putrid moose carcass shipped to France in order to win an argument

Thomas Jefferson's George Costanza Moment: Shipping a Rotting Moose to France to Win an Argument

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“Buffon suspected it was a matter of millions, if not billions, of years,” said Roberts. “He pioneered the idea of time on a geological scale.”

Unlike his contemporary Carl Linnaeus, who believed that nature was static and every species had stayed exactly as God created them, Buffon believed nature was too complex and changeable to be easily categorised.

He was even concerned about the impact of human-caused climate change. “Buffon had enemies, because his message – that nature cannot be conquered, that humans were, in fact, part of nature – was essentially disconcerting to other people.”

The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change

Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals

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About Illustrator Félix Lorioux

About Illustrator Félix Lorioux

Les Deux Nigauds par la Comtesse de Ségur, illustrations Félix Lorioux. (Pinterest) —ooo— The cover of La Comtesse de Ségur’s Les Deux Nigauds (The Two Silly Kids) is shown above, illustrated by Félix Loriaux. It has been on my bookshelves for about 70 years. It is a book intended for children written by La Comtesse de Ségur (1 August 1799 – 8 February 1874). La Comtesse de Ségur was Russian by…

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Eyes of Nature

In Buffon’s eyes Nature is an infinitely diversified whole which it is impossible to break up and classify. “The animal combines all the powers of Nature; the forces animating it are peculiarly its own; it wishes, does, resolves, works, and communicates by its senses with the most distant objects. One’s self is a centre where everything agrees, a point where all the universe is reflected, a world…

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文章〔文体〕とは、ひとが己れの思想のうちに設ける秩序および運びのいいにほかなりませぬ。

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From Thomas Jefferson to Buffon, 1 October 1787

From Thomas Jefferson to Buffon, 1 October 1787

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Thomas Jefferson to John Manners, 22 February 1814

Thomas Jefferson to John Manners, 22 February 1814

[out of order, really, but my reference more than anything...this is probably one of the most complete pieces where Jefferson comes close to classifying his own concept of ‘transformism’/proto-evolutionary structure to the order of the natural world, not necessarily to the development of species adapting to varied selection pressures...]