Comte de Buffon
(1707–1788) French naturalistThe son of wealthy Burgundian landowners, Buffon was born in Montbard; he studied law at Dijon and medicine at Angers. After traveling in Italy and England, he inherited ...
space-time
A formulation of three-dimensional space and time as a four-dimensional space. In computer graphics spacetime is used, for example, in constraining object positions in space and time in a consistent ...