The Natural History of Birds Buffon Smellie Paperback 9781108022989 Volume 1

The Natural History of BirdsFrom the French of the Count de Buffon; Illustrated with Engravings, and a Preface, Notes, and Additions, by the Translator\nAuthor(s): Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, William Smellie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108022989, 978-1108022989\nSynopsis\nGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon [tel] was a French mathematician who was considered one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment. An acquaintance of Voltaire and other intellectuals, he worked as Keeper at the Jardin du Roi from 1739, and this inspired him to research and publish a vast encyclopaedia and survey of natural history, the ground-breaking Histoire Naturelle, which he published in forty-four volumes between 1749 and 1804. These volumes, first published between 1770 and 1783 and translated into English in 1793, contain Buffon's survey and descriptions of birds from the Histoire Naturel.