Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de (1707-88)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3505. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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French naturalist. Discovered the binomial theorem and worked on probability theory. In astronomy he suggested that the Earth might have been created by the collision of a comet with the Sun. Based on the cooling rate of iron, he calculated in Théorie de la Terre that the age of the Earth was 75 000 years. This estimate, so much larger than the official 6000 years, was condemned by the Catholic C...

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