Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de 1707-1788 creator Barr, James Smith text utu 2014 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Original publication data not identified Natural history QH Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44792 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44792 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134028.0 44792