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Auteur : Louis Agassiz, Essay on classification, 1859, p. 2.
Date et contexte : 1859
Extrait : "Buffon lui-même, qui commença sa grande histoire naturelle en réfutant l’existence d’un quelconque système dans la nature, finit par regrouper les oiseaux en fonction de caractères portés par plusieurs d’entre eux."
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"There is no question in natural history on which more diversified opinions are entertained, than that of classification. ... Even Buffon, who began the publication of his great natural history by denying the existence in nature of anything like a system, closed his work by grouping the birds according to certain general features exhibited in common by many of them."
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