The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 188
mber 7, 1707. Buffon, who was in early lifea traveler, became keeper of the Royal Gardensand Museum in Paris. His great book on Nat-ural History contains all the knowledge on thatsubject that was gained up to his time, and it isbeautifully written. Though Buffon did not dis-cover or prove anything… … FIVE GREAT ENGLISH SCIENTISTS.383 384 LIFE-SKETCHES OF GREAT SCIENTISTS But while I talk about the men who studiedall things on the earth that they might discoverits laws you must not forget that there were oth-ers who went outside the earth to find the lawsthat govern the sun and moon and stars.…
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