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Buffon's new concept of history

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
This article raises the question of the meaning given by Buffon to the notion of history, through a reexamination of three aspects of a problem which has become traditional in a series of critical discussions: to what extent can Buffon's Histoire naturelle be considered as historical?
Raphaël Authier
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The logic of life in Maupertuis: from Newtonian attraction to psychobiological determinism

Montesquieu.it, 2020
After successfully relaunching the epigenetic theory of generation, reinterpreted in the light of Newtonian attraction and chemical affinities ("Vénus physique", 1745), Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) deepened his theoretical investigations
Federico Focher
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Sweet Corrosion Inhibition by CO₂ Capture

Molecules, 2022
The most practical and economical way to combat the problems derived from CO2 corrosion (sweet corrosion) is the use of corrosion inhibitors of organic origin.
Jesus Porcayo-Calderon, Jorge Canto, L. M. Martinez-de-la-Escalera, Adrian Neri   +3 more
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Figures de (dé)rangement : de quelques tropes relationnels chez Jacques Delille

Versants, 2023
Dans L’Homme des champs (1800) et Les Trois Règnes de la nature (1808), Jacques Delille établit de multiples parallèles entre des êtres qui lui semblent occuper des places diamétralement opposées sur des échelles de valeur hétéroclites, ses critères de ...
Hugues Marchal
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On Buffon Machines and Numbers [PDF]

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2011
Largely revised version with references and figures added. 12 pages. In ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'2011)
Flajolet, Philippe, Pelletier, Maryse, Soria, Michèle   +2 more
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Duas concepções de estado de natureza: Rousseau e Buffon

Griot, 2020
Em muitos textos, Buffon mostra-se partidário da ideia da existência de um laço conjugal natural entre homem e mulher, retomando, assim, as concepções de Locke sobre o assunto. Por sua vez, Rousseau surge como um grande crítico desta ideia.
Mauro Dela Bandera Arco Júnior
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Historia natural y temporalización: consideraciones sobre la Historia natural de Buffon

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2013
Presenta una relectura de la Historia natural de Buffon a la luz de los conceptos de reversibilidad e irreversibilidad temporal. El objetivo es determinar hasta qué punto Buffon introduce en dicha obra una concepción transformista de las formas naturales.
María Verónica Galfione
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Le rapport homme – animal dans l’« Histoire naturelle » de Buffon

Limbaj si Context, 2018
The work of Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon is important and revealing from the perspective of natural sciences as well as from the literary point of view.
Ecaterina Foghel
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The Collaboration ‘manqué:’ Petrus Camper’s Son at Montbard, 1785-1787

Textes & Contextes, 2009
The Dutch anatomist Petrus Camper (1722-1789) was pleased that Buffon wanted to co-write a book on the natural history of whales. His son, Adriaan Gilles Camper (1759-1820), who was studying in Paris, went to Montbard to discuss this project ...
Miriam Claude Meijer
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THE HIDDEN SIDE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. A BUFFON-LINNÉ EXHIBITION TO BE TAKEN WITH A PINCH OF SALT [PDF]

Jurnalul Artelor Spectacolului
The Buffon Museum in Montbard aims to soon reunite the two great naturalists, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and Karl von Linné. However, mention of the project raises the “complex” question of theories about humanity developed by scientists and
Tony Fouyer
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