01936cam a22003253u 4500 44792 UtSlPG 20260610134028.0 m cr n 260607r2014||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 QH Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 Buffon's Natural History, Volume 01 (of 10) : Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2014 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_Naturelle Release date is 2014-01-29 Produced by Chris Curnow, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Buffon's Natural History, Volume 01 (of 10)" by Comte de Buffon is an encyclopedic work written between 1749-1804. This monumental collection spans 36 volumes covering all natural sciences known at the time, from quadrupeds and birds to minerals and geology. Buffon challenged biblical chronology by asserting Earth's ancient age, introducing a secular view of natural origins. His comparative anatomy and observations of similarities between humans and apes set the stage for evolutionary thought, earning him recognition as "the father of all thought in natural history." (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Natural history Barr, James Smith https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44792 85631 85631