On a summer day in 1741, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, a wealthy French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist, strode into the foundry on his expansive country estate with a task in ...
HOW long did it take for the once-molten Earth to cool to its modern temperature? The question nagged at Georges-Louis Leclerc, the Comte de Buffon. To work it out, he heated iron balls of different ...
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GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC, the Comte De Buffon, was the most famous naturalist on the planet in the middle of the 18th century, and he didn’t think much of the New World. He proclaimed the Americas ...
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