Author : Jacques Roger
Release : 1997
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 187/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Buffon by : Jacques Roger
Download or read book Buffon written by Jacques Roger. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR