15-427: Thomas Burnett or Burnet may refer to: Thomas Burnet (theologian) (c. 1635–1715), theologian Thomas Burnet (judge) (1694–1753), English wit, barrister and judge Thomas Burnet (physician) (1638–1704), physician to Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Queen Anne Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet (died 1653), feudal baron who represented Kincardineshire in
30-564: A more active and sensible existence". Thomas Newton , Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul's, criticised Gibbon and claimed that Burnet's views were exactly the opposite. Burnet's work had an influence on Samuel Taylor Coleridge . He is quoted at the beginning of the 1817 edition of his The Rime of the Ancient Mariner . The ridge Dorsa Burnet in the Ocean of Storms on the Moon
45-630: A pensioner of the Charterhouse. At two meetings held by the governors 17 January and Midsummer day 1687, the king's letters of dispensation were produced, but, in spite of the efforts of George Jeffreys , a governor, the majority refused compliance. After the Glorious Revolution Burnet became chaplain in ordinary and Clerk of the Closet to William III (until 1695). He received no clerical preferment and lived quietly in
60-534: The fall of man was a symbolic event rather than literal history. Burnet's treatise De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium was published posthumously in 1720. In Edward Gibbon 's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire III p. 99 Gibbon made reference to Burnet's De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium noting that Burnet "exposes the inconveniences which must arise", if souls "possess
75-618: The Charterhouse, where he died on 27 September 1715, and was buried in the chapel. Burnet's best known work is his Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth . The first part was published in 1681 in Latin , and in 1684 in English translation; the second part appeared in 1689 (1690 in English). It was a speculative cosmogony , in which Burnet suggested a hollow earth with most of
90-1107: The Scottish Parliament, 1621 Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet (after 1656–1714), MP for Scotland, 1707–1708 Sir Thomas Burnett, 6th Baronet (died 1783), of the Burnett baronets Sir Thomas Burnett, 8th Baronet (1778–1849), Lord Lieutenant of Kincardine , 1847–1849 Sir Thomas Burnett, 12th Baronet (1840–1926), Lord Lieutenant of Kincardine , 1920–1926 Thomas Burnett (footballer) (1852–?), Wales international footballer Thomas Burnett (New Zealand politician) (1877–1941), New Zealand politician Thomas Lloyd Burnett (1871–1938), American rancher from Texas Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853–1888), Scottish sculptor Thomas P. Burnett (1800–1846), Michigan and Wisconsin Territorial legislator Tom Burnett (footballer) (1913–1986), English footballer for Darlington Tom Burnett (Flight 93 passenger) (1963–2001), passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, and victim of
105-464: The Springs and Wheels which he puts into the work, than he that hath so made his Clock that he must put his finger to it every hour to make it strike. Some of the views expressed in this work, also known as Archaeologiae Philosophicae sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus (1692), were so unacceptable to contemporary theologians that he had to resign his post at Court. In this he considered whether
120-520: The attacks on September 11 Tom L. Burnett (born 1954), politician in the Montana House of Representatives See also [ edit ] Thomas Burnett Swann (1928–1976), American poet and author Tom Burnette (1915–1994), American football player [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
135-610: The book in 1685, in particular accusing Burnet of following the Second Epistle of Peter rather than the Book of Genesis . During the 1690s John Beaumont and Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt picked up on Burnet's ideas. They engendered a great deal of controversy at the time, and Burnet defended himself against selected critics, John Keill and Erasmus Warren . Isaac Newton was an admirer of Burnet's theological approach to geological processes. Newton even wrote to Burnet, suggesting
150-533: The idea that the Flood was not universal; Burnet's theory was at least in part intended to answer him on that point. Burnet's system had its novel features, as well as those such as the four classical elements that were very traditional: an initially ovoid Earth, a Paradise before the Flood that was always in the spring season, and rivers flowing from the poles to the Equator. Herbert Croft published criticism of
165-454: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Burnett&oldid=1251364849 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Burnet (theologian) Thomas Burnet ( c. 1635? – 27 September 1715 )
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#1732780256120180-410: The possibility that when God created the Earth, the days were longer. However, Burnet did not find this explanation scientific enough. Lengthening the days would require an intervention on God's part. Burnet tightly held the belief that God created the world and all its processes perfectly from the start. He wrote: We think him a better Artist that makes a Clock that strikes regularly at every hour from
195-490: The water inside until Noah's Flood , at which time mountains and oceans appeared. He calculated the amount of water on Earth's surface, stating there was not enough to account for the Flood. Burnet was to some extent influenced by Descartes who had written on the creation of the earth in Principia philosophiae (1644), and was criticised on those grounds by Roger North . The heterodox views of Isaac La Peyrère included
210-487: Was an English theologian and writer on cosmogony . He was born at Croft near Darlington in 1635. After studying at Northallerton Grammar School under Thomas Smelt, he went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1651. There he was a pupil of John Tillotson . Ralph Cudworth , the Master of Clare, moved to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1654, and Burnet followed him. He became fellow of Christ's in 1657, M.A. in 1658, and
225-500: Was proctor in 1667. Burnet took employment travelling with Lord Wiltshire , son of Charles Paulet, 6th Marquess of Winchester , and through Tillotson as tutor to Lord Ossory , grandson of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde . The influence of the Duke of Ormonde, one of the governors, secured his appointment in 1685 to the mastership of Charterhouse . Burnet took part in the resistance offered to James II's attempt to make Andrew Popham
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