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"An epic, extraordinary account of rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth -- a competition whose consequences still reverberate today -- from the bestselling author of A Sense of the World. In the eighteenth century, two men -- exact contemporaries and polar opposites -- dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair,...
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788), was perhaps the most important of Charles Darwin's predecessors, Director of the Royal Botanical Garden, and certainly the premier French scientist of the Enlightenment. Buffon conducted experiments investigating a broad range of questions, from the burning effects of the sun's rays to the tensile strength of timber. His studies of plant life led to his creation of a renowned nursery, his zoological...
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