The epochs of nature / Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon ; translated and edited by Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, and Mateusz Zalasiewicz ; introduction by Jan Zalasiewicz, Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald ; illustrations by Anne-Sophie Milon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788, author.

Contributor:

Zalasiewicz, J. A., translator, editor.

Milon, Anne-Sophie, translator, editor, illustrator.

Zalasiewicz, Mateusz, translator, editor, writer of introduction.

Standardized Title:

Époques de la nature. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Natural history.

Geology.

History.

Earth (Planet)--History.

Earth (Planet).

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: Buffon and the history of the Earth / Jan Zalasiewicz, Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald

The epochs of nature. First discourse. First epoch: When the Earth and the planets took their form ; Second epoch: When matter, being consolidated, formed the interior rock of the globe and the great vitrescible masses that are at its surface ; Third epoch: When the waters covered our continents ; Fourth epoch: When the waters retreated and the volcanoes became active ; Fifth epoch: When the elephants and the other animals of the South lived in the North ; Sixth epoch: When the separation of continents was made ; Seventh and last epoch: When the power of man has assisted that of nature

Justifying notes to the facts reported in the Epochs of nature.

Notes:

Translation of: Les époques de la nature. 1778. Édition critique avec le manuscrit, une introduction et des notes par Jacques Roger. Paris : Éditions du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1962 (Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Série C, Sciences de la terre ; nouv. sér., t. 10).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226395432

022639543X

OCLC:

992689037