Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician...

Buffon may refer to: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French naturalist Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978), Italian football goalkeeper Lorenzo...

planning to practice as a physician. At about this time, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, also a native of Montbard, was preparing to bring out a multi-volume...

publications of his contemporaries, such as the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, but it is chiefly Hutton's pioneering work that established...

Guillaume François de Cepoy and Élisabeth Amaranthe Jogues de Martinville and married count Georges Louis Marie Leclerc de Buffon (1764-1794) in 1784;...

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...

des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon from 1761. He was a close friend of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, the naturalist who wrote the Histoire...

Male in flight Female in flight Female (left) Male Male by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788) BirdLife International (2016). "Ruby-topaz Hummingbird...

the 18th century, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, was critical of this natural theology in his masterwork Histoire Naturelle. Buffon rejected the idea...

England. February 27 – French scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study correlating past weather...