Ideas of different stages in the formation of the Earth. Engraving from 'The Sacred Theory of the Earth' by Thomas Burnet (London, 1817). 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.

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