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Buffon is a lunar crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies a crater diameter south of the large walled plain Chebyshev. To the northeast is the crater Langmuir and to the southwest is Leavitt. Buffon lies nearly at the midpoint between these formations.
This is a worn and eroded crater formation, with a circular rim that can still be traced through the rugged terrain but which is irregular and rounded due to a history of lesser impacts. The most notable of these is a tiny crater which lies across the northern rim and the satellite crater Buffon D which lies along the inner eastern wall. The interior floor, although generally level, is equally rugged and irregular, particularly in the eastern half.
Buffon may refer to:
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French naturalist
- Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978), Italian football goalkeeper
- Lorenzo Buffon (born 1929), former Italian football goalkeeper, cousin of the grandfather of Gianluigi Buffon
- Buffon, Côte-d'Or, a town in the French département of Côte-d'Or
- Buffon (crater), a lunar crater
Usage examples of "buffon".
In the Classical age - Locke and Linnaeus, Buffon and Hume are our evidence of this - the critical question concerned the basis for resemblance and the existence of the genus.
Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, if not from that of Buffon himself, that the majority of organs are as purposive to the evolutionist as to the theologian, and far more intelligibly so.
I believe to be the chief addition which I have ventured to make to the theory of Buffon and Dr.
His mother was celebrated for her wit, and Buffon cherished her memory.
The three travelled together in France and Italy, and Buffon then passed some months in England.
May we not imagine that Buffon would be unwilling to debar himself from speaking to those who could understand him, and yet would wish like Handel and Shakespeare to address the many, as well as the few?
Naturally enough, the Sorbonne objected to an artifice which even Buffon could not conceal completely.
These descriptions are the parts which Buffon intended for the general reader, expecting, doubtless, and desiring that such a reader should skip the dry parts he had been addressing to the more studious.
Is it not more likely that Buffon intended his reader to draw his inferences for himself, and perhaps to value them all the more highly on that account?
But it was not one which Buffon was going to put before the general public.
Natural Theology, which was throughout obviously written to meet Buffon and the Zoonomia.
The great propounders of evolution, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck--not to mention a score of others who wrote at the close of the last and early part of this present century--had no qualms about admitting man into their system.
Darwin did not modify the main theory put forward, first by Buffon, to whom it indisputably belongs, and adopted from him by Erasmus Darwin, Lamarck, and many other writers in the latter half of the last century and the earlier years of the present.
Darwin and Wallace have each thrown invaluable light upon these last two points, but Buffon, as early as 1756, had made them the keystone of his system.
Granted that Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck bore the burden and heat of the day before Mr.