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translation by Buffon

  • Buffon, engraving by C. Baron after Drouais, 1761.
    In Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon

    …a translation of Stephen Hales’s Vegetable Staticks, in the preface of which he developed his conception of scientific method. Maintaining an interest in mathematics, he published a translation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Fluxions in 1740. In his preface to this work he discussed the history of the differences between Newton…

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