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Carte Des Deux Regions Polaires, Paris, anno 1778
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Carte Des Deux Regions Polaires, Paris / 1778 Rare map of the World on a polar projection, showing a contemporary knowledge of the Polar latitudes, including the routes of Abel Tasman, James Cook, Edmund Halley., Furneaux and Marion in the South Polar Regions. The map is derived from works on the French Exploration of the South Pacific issued after 1773. The treatment of the NW Coast of America also reflects the information derived from Russian explorers in the mid-18th Century. This map is from the Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Specifically, it occurs at the end of Vol. 5 of the 7-volume Supplement a l'Histoire Naturelle, published in Paris in 1778. Size of the leaf: 25x44 cm., small crac with a little loss on upper right margin. Buffon, Georges, Comte de (1707-1788) French naturalist who became keeper of the French botanical gardens. At first, he believed in Leibniz's Law of Continuity and disagreed with Linnaeus's system of nomenclature, maintaining that a species was an artificial category. He changed his mind, however, when he found that the offspring of some plant hybridizations were sterile. He proposed identifying species through their reproductive histories, with two animals belonging to the same species if they can produce fertile offspring. His monumental life's work, Historie Naturelle (Natural History) (1749), ran to 36 volumes and tried to show the continuity of nature. Buffon had no concept of evolution, believing that species are fixed. Buffon was a believer in Vitalism, Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry stating that living organisms possessed "matiére vive" (living matter). He also speculated on the origin of the Earth, Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy suggesting that it might have been created by the collision of a comet Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy with the Sun. Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy Based on the cooling rate of iron, he calculated that the age of the Earth Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy was 75,000 years. This proclamation was condemned by the Catholic Church in France, who burned Buffon's books. Buffon also proposed the Buffon's needle problem, Eric Weisstein's World of Math which asks the probability that a needle of length l will fall on a line when a piece of paper is ruled with parallel lines a distance d apart. References Roger, J. Buffon: A Life in Natural History. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Carte Des Deux Regions Polaires, Paris, anno 1778 by Buffon G., 1707-88
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