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 08 (of 10)" by Buffon is an encyclopedic work published in 1760 as part of a monumental 36-volume series spanning 1749-1804. This volume continues Buffon's systematic exploration of quadrupeds, documenting what was known about four-legged animals in the 18th century. Part of a groundbreaking collection that challenged biblical timelines and introduced secular approaches to natural history, the work combines detailed animal descriptions with comparative anatomy. Buffon's ambitious project laid foundations for evolutionary thinking and transformed how scientists understood the natural world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_Naturelle Release date is 2014-05-29 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/45821 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45821 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134042.0 45821