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Letter in which Buffon criticizes Jean-Baptiste Le Corgne de Launay's plan to "attack the ideas of the Baron d'Holbach, author of Le système de la nature (1770), in which he attacked religion, with an accompanying manuscript note in French and a handwritten English translation.

Scope and content Letters, documents, and offprints given to or purchased by the History of Science Collections from 1967-1978. Includes signed letter from John James Audubon to Robert Havell, typewritten letters to A.D. White and Simon Henry Gage, a letter from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon to the abbé de Launay; two letters from Schilling to Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring; a 1757 contract between James Grosett and John Newbery for the latter to manufacture various diet drinks; and documents concerning...