...R. S. PORTER Abstract According to Gordon L. Davies (1967), George Hoggart Toulmin (1754–1817) probably plagiarized from James Hutton, and was not important in the history of geology. But Toulmin's views differed from Hutton's in important respects, and he was perhaps more indebted to Georges Louis...

... to an empiricist epistemology of a phenomenalist type, emphasizing knowledge of natural regularities in a fashion parallel to views expressed in the early volumes of Histoire Naturelle , by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte du Buffon (1707–1788). Through his close links with antiquarian scholars, Desmarest formed...

...-history-derived visions of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) or James Hutton (1726–1797). And, as we shall see in the body of this paper, the notion of ‘hypothesizing’ and ‘theorizing’ about nature was anathema to proponents of the ‘Facts First’ approach in the early nineteenth century...

... Louis Leclerc (Comte de Buffon) (1707–1788), and Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) were working to establish an identity for what was being termed the American Incognitum. Guettard published the first illustration of a molar of this giant animal in 1756 ( Tassy 2002 , p. 264), which by then Buffon and his...

... regional climates and the sizes of mountains were held to reflect progressive stages in the cooling process. * [email protected] The Epochs of Nature by Georges-Louis LeClerc, le comte de Buffon, translated and edited by Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon and Mateusz...

... that water was the main agent that shaped and reshaped the Earth's surface in a world that was thought to be eternal. Of course, such ideas are reminiscent of current research themes, but their immediate consequence was to induce a series of breakthroughs. First, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon...

... in Joan M. Eyles, “William Smith, Sir Joseph Banks and the French geologists,” in Alwyne Wheeler and James H. Price (eds.), From Linnaeus to Darwin: commentaries on the history of biology and geology , (London: Society for the History of Natural History, 1985), 37–50. 16. George Louis Leclerc...

... of his time there, but Paris was a pre-eminent place to study Medicine, with unrivalled opportunities for theoretical teaching and practical experience. Although the University was conservative, the associated Jardin du Plantes, where Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was Director, offered free...

..., produced this volume of 24 short papers for the museum’s exhibition, titled “The Ages of the Earth,” in 1999. The exhibition was dedicated to the memory of George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) , and the first paper, “Quelques ages de la Terre: de Buffon a Rutherford” (Some ages of the Earth...

... arguments followed those of George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), but Delamétherie was far more explicit in what he expected thermal contraction to generate. Buffon stated that as a result of his theory of the origin of the Solar System he expected the Earth to have shrunk thermally since...

... Mathématique et Physique, pourl’ année 1765 :, 1768, pp. 143–166. 66. George Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Histoire naturelle générale et particulière , 36 vols, Vol.25:145–300, Vol.26:361–515, Vol.29:1–254 (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1774–1778). 67. Isaac S. Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis...

... subjects. On Roderick Murchison: “He was organized and meticulous, and embarked on his work with the zeal of a general attempting to get to Moscow before winter”. Regarding Georges-Louis-Marie Buffon, who succeeded to the estate where his father George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), conducted...

... to a Paris pharmacist of German background, Rouelle began to offer private lessons in chemistry, his reputation spreading quickly ( Rappaport 1960 , p. 72). 16 In 1742, he was appointed by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), the young Intendant at the Jardin Royal des Plantes...

... Médicinales, a place to grow and study pharmaceutical plants. In 1739, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) was appointed general manager of the garden. Buffon was a biologist and cosmologist whose ideas anticipated the concept of species evolution of Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet...

... set the Earth presently at a point during a period of heating, slowly evaporating the oceans and enlarging the extent of land. 9 The Theory of the Earth published the next year by Georges Louis Leclerc, the comte de Buffon, took the Earth to have originated from a comet’s close passage by the Sun...

... broadened her studies of early geological research to include scrutiny of work by naturalists Georges-Louis Leclerc (Comte de Buffon) and Jean-Étienne Guettard, cleric Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie, amateur botanist Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, and writer Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle...

... stand on geological issues about the Earth’s history, owing to the need to re-establish the authority of the Holy Scriptures, particularly against Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon’s Les Époques de la Nature (1778). This had brought about an important renaissance of ‘Diluvialist theories’ ( Page 1969...

... of the term geognostic in its title, and A Delineation of Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland … … by Smith (1815) , though missing the eponymous name and in spite of some too subtle preventions. What made the difference for William Smith, channel engineer, and George Cuvier, famous...

... different periods, rather than a sudden, single, and universal catastrophe. The case for the greater complexity and duration of the sea’s influence was further articulated by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788) in the first volume of his Histoire naturelle générale et particulière…, avec la...