Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was an influential 18th-century French naturalist and writer whose multi-volume "Histoire naturelle" helped shape Enlightenment thought on biology, geology, and the history of the Earth.

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Label Occurrences
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon canonical 13
Comte de Buffon 4

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Enlightenment thinker
French nobility
biologist
geologist
human
naturalist
writer
birthDate 1707-09-07
birthPlace Burgundy
Kingdom of France
Montbard
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of France
deathDate 1788-04-16
deathPlace Kingdom of France
Paris
educatedAt Collège des Godrans
University of Dijon
employer Jardin du Roi
familyName Leclerc
fieldOfWork anthropology
biology
botany
cosmology
geology
natural history
zoology
genre natural history writing
scientific literature
givenName Georges-Louis
influenced Charles Darwin
Enlightenment natural history
Georges Cuvier
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
influencedBy Isaac Newton
René Descartes
knownFor Monte Carlo method
surface form: Buffon's needle probability problem

early ideas on species change
theory of the history of the Earth
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement Age of Enlightenment
name Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon self-link
nobleTitle Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Comte de Buffon
notableWork Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière
occupation cosmologist
encyclopedist
mathematician
naturalist
writer
positionHeld intendant of the Jardin du Roi
member of the Académie française
member of the French Academy of Sciences
religion Roman Catholicism

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Enlightenment science hasKeyFigure Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon name Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon self-link
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon nobleTitle Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Comte de Buffon
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire influencedBy Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Buffon fullName Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Buffon nobleTitle Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
this entity surface form: Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis nobleTitle Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
subject surface form: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
this entity surface form: Comte de Buffon
Collège des Godrans educated Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Collège des Godrans notableStudent Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Collège des Godrans notableAlumnus Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Leclerc notableBearer Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière author Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Jardin du Roi notableEmployee Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Bust of Buffon depicts Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Bust of Buffon depictedPersonTitle Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
this entity surface form: Comte de Buffon
Bust of Buffon depictedPersonAlternativeName Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Bust of Buffon portraysHistoricalFigure Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon