When in 1772 Buffon became seriously ill and the promise that his son ( then only 8 ) should succeed him as director of the Jardin became clearly impracticable and was withdrawn, the King raised Buffon ’ s estates in Burgundy to the status of a county – and thus Buffon ( and his son ) became a Count.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon believed humanity was only 6000 years old ( the time since Adam ).

He set up the USA's only goal ( scored by Clint Dempsey ) against Ghana and had a potential game-winning goal disallowed against Italy when Brian McBride was adjudged to be screening Gianluigi Buffon in an offside position.

In 2009, IFFHS named him as the third best goalkeeper in the world, behind only Iker Casillas and Gianluigi Buffon.

He was named the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year for the third time in his career on 28 January 2008 ; only he and compatriot Gianluigi Buffon have won the award more than once since its inception in 1997.

After carefully testing more than a thousand small specimens without knots or other defects, Buffon concluded that it was not possible to extrapolate to the properties of full-size timbers, and he began a series of tests on full-size structural members.

Georges Buffon ( 1707 – 1788 ), was perhaps the most

The bulk of his work was in illustrating scientific books by Basedow, Buffon, Lavater, Pestalozzi and others.

Georges de Buffon proposed that the Earth was over 75, 000 years old, possibly much older, and showed signs of historical development in a series of distinct epochs.

He had always been an enthusiastic botanist ; his avenue at Malesherbes was world famous ; he had written against Buffon on behalf of the botanists whom Buffon had attacked, and had been elected a member of the Académie des sciences as far back as 1750.

At about this time, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, also a native of Montbard, was preparing to bring out a multi-volume work on natural history, the Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, and in 1742 he invited Daubenton to assist him by providing anatomical descriptions.

He was also responsible for the dismissal of influential goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon in the same game after making a terrific run leaving Buffon no choice but to foul the full back.

Following a splendid first season where his clean sheets and fine performances helped the club finish second in the Premier League behind double-winners Arsenal, he was nominated alongside Oliver Kahn and Gianluigi Buffon for the UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year award.

Though he was writing an in era before evolution existed, Buffon is a key figure in the history of evolutionary thought ; his " transformist " theory would influence the evolutionary theories of both Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin.

Maurice attended the secondary school Lycée Buffon in Paris where he was taught mathematics by Jacques Hadamard.

Buffon argued that Europe was superior to the Americas biologically, which was illustrated through the size of animals found there.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte of Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788 ) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.

It has been said that " Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century ".

Georges Louis Leclerc ( later Count de Buffon ) was born at Montbard, in the Province of Burgundy to Benjamin Leclerc, a minor local official in charge of the salt tax and Anne-Christine Marlin also from a family of civil servants.

Buffon was instrumental in transforming the Jardin du Roi into a major research center and museum.

In 1752 Buffon married Marie-Françoise de Saint-Belin-Malain, the daughter of an impoverished noble family from Burgundy, who was enrolled in the convent school run by his sister.

It was acquired by the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

He was the author of three volumes of Suites à Buffon, edited by René Richard Louis Castel: Histoire naturelle des Coquilles, contenant leur description, les mœurs des animaux qui les habitent et leurs usages ( Paris, 5 volumes, 1801 ); Histoire naturelle des Vers ( Paris, 2 volumes, 1801 ); and Histoire naturelle des Crustacés ( Paris, 3 volumes, 1802 ).

Pandev impressed in his first year at Lazio, as he made 29 appearances, scoring 3 goals including a memorable effort away to Juventus where he beat Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta, before beating Gianluigi Buffon with an angled shot.

In his Histoire Naturelle ( 1749 ), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, wrote of the " Black Cougar ": " M. de la Borde, King ’ s physician at Cayenne, informs me, that in the American Continent there are three species of rapacious animals ; that the first is the jaguar, which is called the tiger ; that the second is the couguar, called the red tiger, on account of the uniform redness of his hair ; that the jaguar is of the size of a large bull-dog, and weighs about 200 pounds ; that the cougar is smaller, less dangerous, and not so frequent in the neighbourhood of Cayenne as the jaguar ; and that both these animals take six years in acquiring their full growth.

He notably wrote Species des nocturnes ( Night Species in English ) ( six volumes, 1852-1857 ) forming parts of the Suites à Buffon.

Soon afterward, Buffon began a long-term study, performing some of the most comprehensive tests to date on the mechanical properties of wood.

Along with the naturalist Buffon, he made numerous experiments on the growth and strength of wood, and experimented also on the growth of the mistletoe, on layer planting, on smut in corn, and others.

Institutionally, anthropology emerged from the development of natural history ( expounded by authors such as Buffon ) that occurred during the European colonization of the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In 1766, Georges Buffon suggested that some similar species, such as horses and asses, or lions, tigers, and leopards, might be varieties descended from a common ancestor.

Concerned about the readability and profitability of the Histoire naturelle, Buffon dropped Daubenton's anatomical descriptions from later editions as well as from the series on birds, but Daubenton continued to work closely with Buffon at the Jardin du Roi.

This work has a special interest from the essay on shells, printed at the end of it, where Adanson proposed his universal method, a system of classification distinct from those of Buffon and Linnaeus.

Johann Blumenbach from Germany and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon from France were believers in monogenism, the concept that all races have a single origin.

Buffon said that food and the mode of living could make races degenerate and differentiate them from the original Caucasian race.

Buffon was also off his goal line when saving penalties from Seedorf and Kaladze.

Nearing the end of the match, Daniel Niculae obtained a penalty for his team, but Gianluigi Buffon saved the shot from Mutu, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, who eradicated France 4 – 1 on the same evening.

Van der Sar lost his place in the summer of 2001, after the Bianconeri purchased Italian international ' keeper Gianluigi Buffon from Parma for a reported fee of £ 32. 6 million, a world-record fee for a goalkeeper.

Following Giovanni van Bronckhorst's goal-line clearance and subsequent run into the Italian half, Sneijder received a headed ball from Dirk Kuyt and volleyed it with an acrobatic strike past Gianluigi Buffon.

Despite facing competition from high profile keepers such as Gianluca Pagliuca, Angelo Peruzzi and Gianluigi Buffon, Toldo was chosen to start in Euro 2000, as Buffon broke his hand in a friendly match against Norway just eight days before the tournament started.

Smith was nominally a monogenist, maintaining that the creation of humans was single rather than multiple ; but he was less convinced by the standard theories of the time coming from Count Buffon and Georges Cuvier on interfertility and species ; and the book also referred to the polygenist views held by Samuel George Morton.

His account essentially deals with 19th-century authors ; " Passing over authors from the classical period to that of Buffon, with whose writings I am not familiar, Lamarck was the first man whose conclusions on this subject excited much attention.

Institutionally anthropology emerged from natural history ( expounded by authors such as Buffon ).

Former protégés Fabio Cannavaro, Gianluigi Buffon and Francesco Totti from the 1996-winning squad went on to win the 2006 FIFA World Cup.