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Yves Zarka's remarkable book: Buffon, the Philosophical Naturalist , has been very well received by biology-geology professors. This is evidenced by the glowing review by Johann-Gunther Egginger published in the latest APBG bulletin, from which we have selected a few passages: "Another book on Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon , you think - and you are right - because that is also what I said to myself when I received it. But this is indeed an a priori that is quickly dispelled as Yves Zarka's work appears as a "UFO" in the world of biography publishing! Indeed, it is not...