Author : Georges-Louis Leclerc
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334543852
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)
Book Synopsis Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 7 of 10 by : Georges-Louis Leclerc
Download or read book Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 7 of 10 written by Georges-Louis Leclerc and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 7 of 10: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C. &C The most general cause, as we intimated in the article of the lion, of these ambiguous terms in Natural History, arose from the necessity of giving names to the unknown productions of the New World, and thus the animals were called after such of the old continent to whom they had the smallest resemblance. From the general denomination of tiger to every animal whose skin was spotted, instead of one species of that name, we now have nine or ten, and consequently the history of these animals is exceedingly embarrassed, writers have applied to one species what ought to have been ascribed to another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.