. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. ions and his plain and undissembled fashions hath raised against hima numerous train of maligners.* The bishop was not the only eminent man ofletters belonging to this family,—his brother, Sir Thomas Burnet, physician to theking, was the author of several medical works written in Latin, the scientificlanguage of his age. Three grandsons of the first baronet achieved of them, Duncan and Thomas, were eminent physicians in England. Thethird, Gilbert, was Professor of Philosophy at Basle and Montauban, and leftbehind him some
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. ions and his plain and undissembled fashions hath raised against hima numerous train of maligners.* The bishop was not the only eminent man ofletters belonging to this family,—his brother, Sir Thomas Burnet, physician to theking, was the author of several medical works written in Latin, the scientificlanguage of his age. Three grandsons of the first baronet achieved of them, Duncan and Thomas, were eminent physicians in England. Thethird, Gilbert, was Professor of Philosophy at Basle and Montauban, and leftbehind him some philosophical works.! The author of the account of BishopBurnet, cited above, endeavours to show, but without success, that Thomas Burnet,master of the Charterhouse, and author of The Theory of the Earthy belonged to thisfamily ; but there is little doubt that it could count kin with the eccentric andprofound James Burnet of Monboddo, the author of The Origin and Progress ofLanguage. * Forbes, 39, 40. t. Middletons Learned Men and Writers of 3P X ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 105
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