Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon
GPTKB entity
Statements (35)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Dijon
gptkbp:birthDate 1707-09-07
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Montbard,_France
gptkbp:child gptkb:Georges-Louis-Marie_Leclerc
gptkbp:deathDate 1788-04-16
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:era gptkb:Age_of_Enlightenment
gptkbp:field gptkb:cosmology
gptkb:mathematics
natural history
gptkbp:honor gptkb:Buffon_crater_on_the_Moon
Buffon's needle (mathematical problem named after him)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Charles_Darwin
gptkb:Georges_Cuvier
gptkb:Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Buffon's_Law
gptkb:Buffon's_needle
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Académie_française
gptkb:French_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Histoire_Naturelle
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:dictionary
gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:naturalist
astronomer
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Jardin_des_Plantes,_Paris
gptkbp:signature Buffon signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Marie-Françoise_de_Saint-Belin-Malain
gptkbp:title gptkb:Comte_de_Buffon
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Lontra_canadensis
gptkb:Friedrich_Wilhelm_Heinrich_Alexander_von_Humboldt
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5