• John Burnet, FBA (/bərˈnɛt/; 9 December 1863 – 26 May 1928) was a Scottish classicist. He was born in Edinburgh and died in St Andrews. Burnet was educated...
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  • Burnet (1920–2009), Canadian academic specializing in ethnic studies. John Burnet (architect) (1814–1901), Scottish architect John Burnet (classicist)...
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  • sociologist of science, and key figure in the Edinburgh school John Burnet, classicist Helen Bond, theologian Irene Brown, linguist and codebreaker who...
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    Scottish classicist, John Burnet. It was formerly called the Atholl Hotel before it was purchased by the University of St Andrews. John Burnet Hall is...
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  • John Douglas Craig (31 May 1887 – 13 May 1968) was a Scottish classicist, who was Firth Professor of Latin at the University of Sheffield from 1930 to...
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  • Charles Sims, painter (born 1873 in England; suicide) 26 May – John Burnet, classicist (born 1863) 28 May – Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon, Scottish...
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  • material substance, water. It is not because he gave a cosmogony that John Burnet calls him the "first man of science", but because he gave a naturalistic...
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  • this view was Burnet in 1914. Since then, the identity of Critias has been fiercely disputed among scholars. One group of classicists still claims him...
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    the universe, politics, and theology, but, classicists have challenged that division. Classicist John Burnet has argued that "it is not to be supposed...
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  • mystery Lewis (TV series) is "Whom the Gods Would Destroy" Plato (1903). John Burnet (ed.). Platonis Opera. Oxford University Press. p. 380a. Plato in Twelve...
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  • for twelve years. In 1896, he enrolled and under the supervision of John Burnet obtained a master's degree in classics from the University of St Andrews...
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    deliberate destruction of his works also is mentioned by Cicero. The classicist John Burnet doubts this account, however, as both Diogenes Laërtius and Cicero...
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  • playwright, Black Watch Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), theologian, historian and bishop John Burnet (1863–1928), classicist James Burnett (1714–1799), judge...
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    The Larchfield site was also sold at around the same time. John Logie Baird Fiona Burnet, hockey player Alexander Murray Drennan FRSE (1884-1984) Professor...
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    eventually had 7 children. His daughter Mary was married to the Scottish classicist John Burnet. Farmer suffered a stroke at Oxford in 1900 and died in July, 1901...
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    the birth of his supposed disciple, Parmenides. Knowing this, Burnet and later classicists like Cornford, Raven, Guthrie, and Schofield preferred to base...
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    pre-Socratic philosophy into the Ionian and Italian school. According to classicist Jonathan Barnes, "Although the Italian 'school' was founded by émigrés...
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  • Richard Blackmore – King Arthur Thomas Burnet – Remarks upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (on John Locke) William Congreve – The Birth of...
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  • and Astrophysical Transactions, Vol. 25, No. 4, August 2006, 357–358. John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy: Section B: Note on the Sources Archived 2009-02-16...
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  • clergyman (died 1887) 26 July – John Arnott, entrepreneur in Ireland (died 1898 in Ireland) 27 September – John Burnet, architect (died 1901) 20 December...
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    English translation see Burnet (1920).] ——— (1920) [c. 525 BC]. "Science and Religion". Early Greek Philosophy. Translated by Burnet, John (3rd ed.). London:...
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    Warriston, and Rachel Johnston, who married Robert Burnet, Lord Crimond. His third daughter Janet m. John Belches of Tofts, of the Belches of Invermay. They...
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    "Starved Classicism" or "Grecian Moderne") is primarily a 20th-century classicist architectural style stripped of most or all ornamentation, frequently...
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    "constructivists" willing to do so are Brickhouse and Smith 1994, ch. 6.1; Burnet 1924, pp. 136–137; McPherran 1985; Rabinowitz 1958; Reeve 1989, ch. 1.10;...
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  • – 10 March 1942 Physicist 60. John William Mackail 1 January 1935 26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945 Classicist 61. John Masefield 3 June 1935 1 June 1878...
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    home of his student Democritus. Some 20th-century classicists such as Walther Kranz and John Burnet have suggested that he lived in all three cities—that...
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  • and distance from family. In one of his letters to his patron Gilbert Burnet, written in 1709, Johnston mentions that "were it not for the assistance...
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    the Volcano. John Simon (critic): (School House 1938-39) Cultural critic for New York Magazine and other publications Sir Alastair Burnet (School House...
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  • States Navy Rear Admiral and the 17th governor of American Samoa Jacob Burnet – U.S. Senator, 1828–1831 Phillip Burton – Democratic Congressman from California...
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