Benoît de Maillet

Benoît de Maillet was a well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian. He was French consul general at Cairo, and overseer in the Levant. He formulated an evolutionary hypothesis to explain the origin of the Earth and its contents.

12 April 1656

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Born in the same month (April 1656): Nikita Demidov • René Lepage de Sainte-Claire