Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &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 06 (of 10)" by Buffon is an encyclopedic work published in 1756. This volume forms part of a monumental 36-volume collection covering all knowledge of natural sciences in the 18th century. Volume six focuses on wild animals, continuing Buffon's systematic exploration of quadrupeds. The work challenged religious orthodoxy by proposing an Earth older than biblical accounts and introduced secular explanations for natural phenomena. Buffon's attention to internal anatomy made him an early comparative anatomist, laying groundwork for evolutionary thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 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 Natural history QH Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45731 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45731 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134041.0 45731