George-Louis Leclerc Buffon (1707-1778) French naturalist, author of 44 volume Histoire Naturelle. He considered the earth to have been formed before

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George-Louis Leclerc Buffon (1707-1778) French naturalist, author of 44 volume Histoire Naturelle. He considered the earth to have been formed before 4004 BC. Engraving from A Popular History of Science by Robert Routledge (London, 1881).

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