TY - BOOK AU - Buffon,Georges Louis Leclerc,comte de AU - Barr,James Smith TI - Buffon's Natural History. Volume 04 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c AV - QH PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Natural history N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_Naturelle; Release date is 2014-05-23; Produced by Chris Curnow, Tom Cosmas 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 N2 - "Buffon's Natural History. Volume 04 (of 10)" by Buffon is an encyclopedic work published between 1749-1804. This monumental collection spans 36 volumes covering all known natural sciences of the era, from quadrupeds and birds to minerals and geology. Volume 04 focuses on quadrupeds, exploring domestic animals and animal nature. Buffon's groundbreaking work challenged biblical timelines, introduced comparative anatomy, and laid foundations for evolutionary thought. Despite criticism for its elaborate prose, it achieved immense success, selling out its first edition within six weeks. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45729 ER -