Excerpt from Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 10 of 10: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C. From the French, With Notes by the Translator Of the Degeneration of Animals Nature and Pmperties of Minerals, Vegetables, 850. Light, Heat, and Fire Of Air, Water, and (flarth Experiments on the Progress of Heat in Mineral Substances A Table of the Relations 0 f difi'erent M ine ral Substances Observations on the Nature of Platina Experiments on Light, and on the Heat it can produce. Invention of Mirrors to burn at great dis tances 3 Observations and Experiments on Trees and other Vegetables On the Temperature of the Planets General Views of Nature. First View Second View. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.