Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy

by Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon, Comte de, Philibert GuÉNeau De

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First edition

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale later Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi; Hôtel de Thou; Plassan , 1749–An XII 1804 . / First edition of the first work to present natural history as a continuous secular narrative, and the book in which, across fifty-five years and four political regimes, the biblical chronology ceased to be the only frame within which educated readers could discuss the age of the earth. In the Époques de la Nature

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