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Perrault, Buffon and the Natural History of Animals (2012)

Guerrini, Anita (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 66
Issue: 4
Pages: 393-409

DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2012.0044

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Natural history Publishers and publishing 18th century France Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de Académie des Sciences, Paris

In 1733, as part of a programme to publish its early works in a uniform format, the Paris Academy of Sciences reprinted Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Histoire des animaux), last published in 1676, a work of both natural history and mechanistic anatomy. However, unlike the other works in this enterprise, Histoire des animaux was extensively edited and updated. In 1749 Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon published the first volume of Histoire naturelle. Its volumes on quadrupeds, written with Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, held significant similarities to Histoire des animaux. The relationship between these works has not hitherto been examined. Buffon's early ideas on species, in particular, resemble the emphasis on particulars of Histoire des animaux.

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