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Villard Books

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Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100965064611
  • ISBN-139780965064613
  • LibraryThing464586
  • Open LibraryOL8528407M

First Sentence

In the eighteenth century, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), director of the Royal Museum of France, calculated that the history of the earth, from the creation to the end of organic life, would last for a period of exactly 168,123 years, approximately half of which had already elapsed.

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