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Birds from Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle |
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| Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-88), was an amazingly talented man, whose studies ranged through mathematics, astronomy, and all the sciences. His theories, such as his argument that New World species were inferior, were often controversial. His name was legendary in this vital period of natural history, as he was to France what Linnaeus was to Sweden. These memorable images of many animals were part of a prodigious undertaking, in which the Count, who was then keeper of the Jardin du Roi (precursor of the Paris Zoo) set out to describe the whole animal kingdom. Engravings from Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle are some of the most important collections of natural history in the eighteenth century. | ||||
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