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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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    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...
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    publications of his contemporaries, such as the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, but it is chiefly Hutton's pioneering work that established...
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    Guillaume François de Cepoy and Élisabeth Amaranthe Jogues de Martinville and married count Georges Louis Marie Leclerc de Buffon (1764-1794) in 1784;...
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    the army of King Louis XIV of France and the French cavalry. François Robichon de La Guérinière and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon said the Limousin...
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  • French pirate Fud Leclerc (1924–2010), Belgian singer Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French scientist Ginette Leclerc (1912–1992), French...
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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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    Ruby-topaz hummingbird (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Male in flight Female in flight Female (left) Male Male by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788) BirdLife International (2016). "Ruby-topaz Hummingbird...
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    the 18th century, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, was critical of this natural theology in his masterwork Histoire Naturelle. Buffon rejected the idea...
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