George-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon Facts
George-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon Facts
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| Georges Louis Leclerc was born at Montbard in Burgundy. |
| He was named after his mother's uncle and his godfather, Georges Blaisot. |
| In 1714 Blaisot died childless and left his considerable fortune to his 7-year-old godson. |
| In 1717 he entered the Jesuit College of Godrans. |
| From 1723 to 1726 he studied law but in 1728 he left Dijon to study mathematics and medicine at the University of Angers in France. |
| In 1730 he met the Duke of Kingston and traveled with him throughout southern France and Italy for over a year. |
| In 1732 he returned to Dijon to secure his fortune, repurchased the village of Buffon and added Buffon to his name. |
| He became famous in the field of mathematics by introducing differential and integral calculus into probability theory. |
| In 1733 he began a long-term scientific study of the properties of wood for use in shipbuilding. |
| In 1734 he was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences. |
| In 1753 he was admitted to the Academie francaise based on his talent as an author. |
| In 1772 when Buffon became seriously ill the King raised his estates in Burgundy to the level of a county and Buffon and his son became Counts. |
| In 1782 he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere in 36 volumes was translated into many languages and made him as widely read as Montesquieu, Rousseau or Voltaire. |
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