Secrets Held in the Ice (The)
Sciences in consciousness, the ethical reflection
The making of a Theory
Fragonard, revolutionary anatomy
eminent scientists
Galileo or the love of God
Axel Kahn, be reasonable and human
Jean Loup Chrétien - The Making of a Hero
produced by the same member
Fred and Jamy, let's go to the jungle!
Wings of the sun (The)
The Whale Mystery
Shaman, his nephew... and the captain (The)
Khufu's Horizon:The secrets Of The Great Pyramid Reveald
In the mind of plants
Enchanted Forest (The)
Toumaï, enquiry on our origins
The world of colours
Mysteries of Kyys, the chamane (The)
Buffon, Nature's Thinker
docudrama
history of science, eminent scientists
Philippe Tourancheau
Philippe Tourancheau / Frédérique Ungarelli
Gédéon programmes
Mathematician, botanist, naturalist, geologist, encyclopedist, industrialist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon was all this and much more. He left us a considerable heritage in every domain he tackled right up until his death at the age of 80.
His "Natural History", a genuine scientific encyclopedia, was a 18th-century bestseller. In his "Epochs of the Earth", Buffon set down an attempt at calculating the age of our planet which would hold up today in front of a contemporary group of geologists at odds with the Big Bang theory.
In celebration of Buffon's 300th birthday, this docu-drama offers an accurate yet humorous approach to the life of this man, an inconstestable figure of the Age of Enlightenment and one of the founders of modern science and research.
See the showing : Sunday 12th October 2008 from 14h45 to 16h15