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    Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician...
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  • Buffon may refer to: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French naturalist Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978), Italian football goalkeeper Lorenzo...
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    probability theory, Buffon's needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon: Suppose we have a...
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    and J. Hooke, at the Flower-de-Luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1755). Histoire Naturelle; Générale...
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  • Napoleon Bonaparte Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist Marc-André Leclerc (1992–2018), Canadian...
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    (purely refractive) form of the lens was first proposed by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and independently reinvented by the French physicist Augustin-Jean...
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    (including apes). That apes are monkeys was already realized by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the 18th century. Linnaeus placed this group in 1758...
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    citations] That apes are monkeys was already realized by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the 18th century. Linnaeus placed this group in 1758...
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    singer Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French scientist Ginette Leclerc (1912–1992), French film actress H. Leclerc, French biochemist...
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  • Social degeneration (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    During the 18th century, scientific thinkers including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Immanuel Kant argued that...
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