Thomas Burnet (1635-1715) English theologian and writer on cosmogony, born at Croft near Darlington, County Durham, England. His ideas on the formatio

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Thomas Burnet (1635-1715) English theologian and writer on cosmogony, born at Croft near Darlington, County Durham, England. His ideas on the formation and structure of the earth were speculative and unscientific. Engraving from Histoire des Philosophes Modernes by Alexandre Saverien (Paris, 1762).

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