Buffon was educated by the church and loved natural science. The director of the Royal Garden (Botanical Garden) is from 1739. He devoted his life to the management of royal gardens and spent 40 years writing 36 volumes of natural history.
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First of all, characters experience:
1728 studied medicine for two years after graduation. 1730, I met a young British duke and traveled to the south of France, Switzerland and Italy together. Under the influence of the Duke's tutor and German scholar Sinkman, he studied hard on natural history.
From 65438 to 0733, he joined the French Academy of Sciences as an assistant researcher, published a report on forestry, and translated the botany works of British scholars and Newton's calculus. 1739 became an associate researcher and was appointed as the manager of the royal garden and the royal study until his death. ?
Second, the masterpiece:
Natural history, including earth history, human history, animal history, bird history and mineral history. It synthesizes a large number of factual materials, gives an accurate, detailed and scientific description and explanation of nature, and puts forward many valuable viewpoints.
It is Buffon's great contribution to modern science to get rid of all kinds of religious superstitions and ignorant rumors and expel God from the universe.
He insisted on explaining the formation of the earth and the origin of human beings from the materialistic point of view, pointing out that the earth has many similarities with the sun, and the earth is a cool little sun; The evolution of matter on the earth produced plants and animals, and finally human beings.
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