The epochs of nature [electronic resource] / Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon ; translated and edited by Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, and Mateusz Zalasiewicz ; introduction by Jan Zalasiewicz, Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald ; illustrations by Anne-Sophie Milon.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 (Author)
Other Authors: Zalasiewicz, J. A. (Translator)
Milon, Anne-Sophie (Translator, Illustrator)
Zalasiewicz, Mateusz (Translator)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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Format: Electronic eBook

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505 0 |a Introduction: Buffon and the history of the Earth / Jan Zalasiewicz, Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald -- The epochs of nature -- First discourse -- First epoch: when the Earth and the planets took their form -- Second epoch: when matter, being consolidated, formed the interior rock of the globe and the great vitrescible masses that are at its surface -- Third epoch: when the waters covered our continents -- Fourth epoch: when the waters retreated and the volcanoes became active -- Fifth epoch: when the elephants and the other animals of the south lived in the north -- Sixth epoch: when the separation of continents was made -- Seventh and last epoch: when the power of man has assisted that of nature -- Justifying notes to the facts reported in the epochs of nature -- On the first discourse. 
650 0 |a Natural history. 
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