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Ara ambiguus

Known as: Ara ambigua, Buffon's macaw 
National Institutes of Health

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2019
2019
From Paris to Moscow via Leipzig (1749–1787): Translational Metamorphoses of Buffon’s Histoire naturelle
This article explores the circulation of Buffon’s texts and ideas, in particular on animal species and their degenerations, from… 
Review
2015
Review
2015
Poinsinet's Edition of the Naturalis historia (1771–1782) and the Revival of Pliny in the Sciences of the Enlightenment
Summary This paper analyses the revival of Pliny's Naturalis historia within the scientific culture of the late eighteenth and… 
2009
2009
[The misery of degeneration: Buffon's materialism and the 'limitations' of his transformism].
In "Of the degeneration of animals" (1766), Buffon espoused a kind of limited transformism. Yet twelve years later, in Epochs of… 
2007
2007
Buffon illustré : Les gravures de l’Histoire naturelle (1749-1767)
2006
2006
The making of geology
In the late eighteenth century, ideas about the age of rocks and fossils gave rise to a new science. 
1997
1997
Are Reading and Spelling Phonologically Mediated? Evidence from a Patient with a Speech Production Impairment
In this paper, we report the case of a patient, PS, who shows excellent comprehension of the meaning of words despite making a… 
1994
1994
Buffon's Histoire naturelle: History? A Critique of Recent Interpretations
OST PRESENT-DAY HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND that Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788), was no believer in organic… 
1991
1991
Hidden philosophy and theology in Morel's theory of degeneration and nosology
Although philosophy and theology on the one hand and psychiatry on the other have become separate disciplines, they continue to… 
1985
1985
The zoological notes by Johann Reinhold and George Forster included in Buffon's Histoire Naturelle (1782)
ABSTRACT Buffon added 14 notes contributed by one or both of the Forsters to the sixth supplement of the Histoire Naturelle… 
1984
1984
Linné et Buffon: deux visions différentes de la nature et de l'histoire naturelle in Médecine et sciences de la vie au XVIII siècle.
Discussion des approches usuelles de la controverse Linne-Buffon: philosophique et methodologique (induction et deduction… 
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