Leclerc, Georges-Louis

That AIR can also be a part of chemical combination had been pretty much established by the work of Stephen Hales, whose results had been published in his Vegetable Staticks in 1727. As we have seen, this work had been translated into French by Rouelles own sponsor in the Jardin du Roi, Georges Louis Leclerc le conte de Buffon (1707-1788), in 1735. The idea... 

The epitome of this view was expressed in Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, Natural History, General and Particular, William Smellie (trans.) (London Strahan and Cadell, 1781). Buffon extended the earth s history beyond several thousand years and his theoretical approach had a particularly bad reputation in Edinburgh. See Black, Elements, 2,15-17. 

Liquid crystals were discovered by the botanist Friedich Reinitzer [1,2], although the hrst observation of liquid crystals can be likely ascribed to George-Louis LeClerc [3]. After their discovery, liquid crystals were considered for a long time as a curiosity. 

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-88), French naturalist and author of Histoire Naturelle (Paris, 1770-99), 44 vols. - Eds. 

Sceptical Chymist, 45-47 Bucquet, Jean-Baptisle Michel (1746-1780), 88-89, 233,237 240, 244,246, 250 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788), 233 235... 

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc. Natural History General and Particular. Translated by William Smellie. Avon, England Thoemmes Press, 2001. 

With the great excess of carbon present in the small furnace it was unhkely that the small amount absorbed by the iron should be seen as of importance. Aristotle and many of his successors even up to the Middle Ages looked on steel as a purer sort of iron. It had come nearer the typically metallic state. Cast iron had arrived at this state, yet it was brittle and non-formable. But it had the properties most typical of a metal fusibility and castabihty. Even as late as 1783 Georges Louis Leclerc de BufFon (1707-1788) in France wrote that... 

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