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The Natural History of Birds - Volume 9

The Natural History of Birds - Volume 9

Smellie, William
Buffon, Georges Louis Le Clerc
Buffon, Comte de

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1108023061
ISBN13: 9781108023061
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 25 2010
Pages: 618
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-88) was a French mathematician who was considered one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment. An acquaintance of Voltaire and other intellectuals, he worked as Keeper at the Jardin du Roi from 1739, and this inspired him to research and publish a vast encyclopaedia and survey of natural history, the ground-breaking Histoire Naturelle, which he published in forty-four volumes between 1749 and 1804. These volumes, first published between 1770 and 1783 and translated into English in 1793, contain Buffon's survey and descriptions of birds from the Histoire Naturelle. Based on recorded observations of birds both in France and in other countries, these volumes provide detailed descriptions of various bird species, their habitats and behaviours and were the first publications to present a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century ornithology. Volume 9 covers water fowl and related birds.

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