BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of), 1707–1788.

BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of), 1707–1788. Autograph letter signed “Buffon,” Paris, April 18, 1739, 2½ pages in-4 format in brown ink, trace of a red wax seal (small cut or corner tear with minor loss of text), addressed to Étienne-François Dutour, tax collector in Riom, but above all a physicist and naturalist. A fine scientific letter by the young Buffon, a true declaration of faith in the experimental method, written just three months before his appointment as director of

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