Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte du Buffon, French naturalist, 1761. Author of the encyclopaedic 44-volume Histoire Naturelle, Buffon (1707-1778) proposed that the Earth existed before 4004 BC, the then generally accepted date of its creation. His work was a precursor of the theory of evolution. Copperplate engraving after a portrait of 1761 by Drouais. | |
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