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Title: Buffon's Natural History, Volume III (of 10)

Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c.

Author: Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Release Date: May 12, 2014 [eBook #45639]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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Barr's Buffon.

Buffon's Natural History.

CONTAINING

A THEORY OF THE EARTH,

A GENERAL

HISTORY OF MAN,

OF THE BRUTE CREATION, AND OF
VEGETABLES, MINERALS,
&c. &c.

FROM THE FRENCH.

WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,

SOLD AND BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1807.

T. Gillet, Printer, Wild-Court

CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRD VOLUME.

		Page
	History of Animals	1
Chap. VI.	Experiments on the Method of Generation	81
Chap. VII.	Comparison of my Observations with those of Leeuwenhoek	134
Chap. VIII.	Reflections on the preceding Experiments	159
Chap. IX.	Varieties on the Generation of Animals	208
Chap. X.	On the Formation of the Fœtus	226
Chap. XI.	On the Expansion, Growth, and Delivery of the Fœtus	260
	Recapitulation	309

History of Man.

Chap. I. Of the Nature of Man	317
Chap. II. Of Infancy	334

Directions for placing the Plates.

Page	88,	Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
	106,	Fig. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
	140,	Plate III.
	148,	Plate IV.

BUFFON'S
NATURAL HISTORY.

HISTORY OF ANIMALS.

Aristotle admits, with Plato, of final and efficient causes. These efficient causes are sensitive and vegetative souls, that give form to matter which, of itself, is only a capacity of receiving forms; and as in generation the female gives the most abundant matter, and it being against his system of final causes to admit that what one could effect should be performed by many, he concludes, that the female alone contains the necessary matter to generation; and, as another of his principles was, that matter itself is unformed, and that form is a distinct being from matter, he affirmed that the male furnished the form, and, consequently, nothing belonging to matter.

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