Authority Cited: Burnet
Author name and dates: Thomas Burnet (1635-1715)
BKG Bio-tweet: Natural philosopher and headmaster; speculative creation cosmogony; descriptive writing praised by Addison
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
Author name and dates: Thomas Burnet (1635-1715)
BKG Bio-tweet: Natural philosopher and headmaster; speculative creation cosmogony; descriptive writing praised by Addison
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
- Telluria Theoria Sacrae, trans. into English by the author & Preface Bibliographic information: THOMAS BURNET. The Theory of the Earth. 3d ed. London, 1697. The Two First Books. The Two Last Books (consulted by Wimsatt; 1st English ed. 1684-90 in SJ library (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.151)
- Burnet (no work cited); absorb, absorption and perhaps 50 other quotes