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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Burnet (March 1781 or 20 March 1784 – 29 April 1868) was a Scottish engraver and painter. Son of the Surveyor-General of Excise of Scotland, Burnet was...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • London, one of several periodicals of the century with similar names. Thomas Burnet – Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth (Part 1 in Latin...
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  • publication continued until 1702) Richard Blackmore – King Arthur Thomas Burnet – Remarks upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (on John Locke)...
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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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    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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    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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  • Languedoc. Samuel Morland demonstrates improvements in water pumps. Thomas Burnet's cosmogony Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth is...
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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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  • 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 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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    John Burnet (1814–1901), architect who lived and practised in Glasgow Sir John James Burnet (1857–1938), Edwardian architect, son of John Burnet James...
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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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    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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    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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