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.
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Chicago ; London :
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Contents:
- 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.