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: Benoit de Maillet (1656-1738) French diplomat

Benoit de Maillet (1656-1738) French diplomat

Benoit de Maillet (1656-1738) French diplomat and traveller. He attempted to measure the age of the earth and came to the somewhat arbitrary conclusion that it was 2 billion years. From Histoire des Philosophes Modernes by Alexandre Saverien (Paris, 1762)

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