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    Thomas Burnet (c. 1635? – 27 September 1715) was an English theologian and writer on cosmogony. He was born at Croft near Darlington in 1635. After studying...
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  • Thomas Burnett or Burnet may refer to: Thomas Burnet (theologian) (c. 1635–1715), theologian Thomas Burnet (judge) (1694–1753), English wit, barrister...
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  • Thomas Burnet (1694–1753) was an English wit, barrister and judge, from a Scottish-Dutch background. He was the grandson of the Scottish judge Robert...
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  • Sir Thomas Burnet (1638–1704) was a Scottish physician, known for his appointment to successive British monarchs, and as an author in the tradition of...
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    Gilbert Burnet (18 September 1643 – 17 March 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin...
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    David Gouverneur Burnet (April 14, 1788 – December 5, 1870) was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as the interim president of Texas...
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    identify wrinkle ridges on the Moon. For example, the Dorsa Burnet are named for Thomas Burnet, and the Dorsum Owen is named after George Owen of Henllys...
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    descends from Robert Burnet, Lord Crimond, another brother of Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet. He was the third son of Alexander Burnet, above-mentioned,...
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  • Robert Burnet, Lord Crimond (1592 – 24 August 1661) was a Scottish advocate and judge. He was the fourth son of Alexander Burnett of Leys by his wife Katherine...
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    respect to time was introduced during the era of Biblical models by Thomas Burnet who applied a two-fold terminology to mountains by identifying "montes...
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  • Time and uniformitarianism using the works of the English theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell. Gould ranks...
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  • Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Thomas Burnet (several people) William Burnet (1688–1729), British colonial administrator William Burnet (1730–1791), American physician...
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    salad burnet, garden burnet, small burnet, burnet (also used for Sanguisorba generally),[citation needed] pimpernelle, Toper's plant, and burnet-bloodwort...
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  • (1634–1710) Thomas Grantham (1634–1692) Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715) Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705) Edward Stillingfleet (1635–1699) Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715)...
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    Jacob Burnet (sometimes spelled Burnett) (February 22, 1770 – May 10, 1853) was an American jurist and statesman from Ohio. He served as a U.S. Senator...
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    deflator figures follow the MeasuringWorth "consistent series" supplied in Thomas, Ryland; Williamson, Samuel H. (2024). "What Was the U.K. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth...
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    again went back to Augustine. Newton's attitude to the cosmogony of Thomas Burnet reflected on the language of the Genesis creation narrative; as did...
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    their existence. Thus, for example, mountains were interpreted [e.g, by Thomas Burnet] as ruins of a once flat earth destroyed by the Flood, with the seas...
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    Sir John James Burnet FRSE FRIBA RSA RA (31 May 1857 – 2 July 1938) was a Scottish Edwardian architect who was noted for a number of prominent buildings...
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    and person. Pope endured attacks from, among others, George Duckett, Thomas Burnet, and Richard Blackmore. All of these, however, were less vicious than...
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    granite. It included a review of alternative theories, such as those of Thomas Burnet and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. The whole was entitled An...
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    great courtyard houses of Tudor London. In 1611, the property was bought by Thomas Sutton, a businessman and "the wealthiest commoner in England", who established...
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  • appointed a Baron of the Exchequer. In January 1753, after the death of Sir Thomas Burnet, Clive was transferred to the Court of Common Pleas, and on 9 February...
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    Procellarum on the Moon. They are about 194 km long and were named after Thomas Burnet by the IAU in 1976. The dorsa draw near the southwest end of the Montes...
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    This natural philosophy was recast in biblical terms by the theologian Thomas Burnet, whose Sacred Theory of the Earth published in the 1680s proposed complex...
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  • 380 km William Buckland (1784–1856) Dorsa Burnet 28°24′N 57°00′W / 28.4°N 57.0°W / 28.4; -57.0 194 km Thomas Burnet (1635–1715) Dorsa Cato 1°00′N 47°00′E...
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    and, upon the death of Thomas Burnet in 1715, King was made Master of Charterhouse. A devout man who carried a copy of Thomas à Kempis's Imitation of...
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  • Gildon, Blount's "Vindication of Dr. Burnet", an English translation by "H. B." of three sections of Thomas Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae, Blount's...
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  • needs be irrational in the highest degree." In the late 17th-century, Thomas Burnet referred to "a multitude of pieces aptly joyn'd" to argue against the...
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    succession of Huguenot tenants. In 1816 the house was acquired by Reverend Thomas Burnet for a boys' school, which was attended by the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton...
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