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en-wikipedia-org-5968		Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5159	658	69	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century".[2] In the opening volumes of the Histoire naturelle Buffon questioned the usefulness of mathematics, criticized Carl Linnaeus's taxonomical approach to natural history, outlined a history of the Earth with little relation to the Biblical account, and proposed a theory of reproduction that ran counter to the prevailing theory of pre-existence. ^ Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de", Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews. William Smellie's English Translation of Buffon's Natural History, General and Particular, 3rd Edition	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5968.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5968.txt