An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth Along With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth

An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth Along With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth

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AN EXAMINATION OF Dr. BURNET'S Theory of the Earth.
  The Introduction.
  Chap. I.
  Chap. II.
  Chap. III.
  Chap. IV.
  Chap. V.
  Chap. VI.
  Chap. VII.

SOME REMARKES ON Mr. WHISTON'S Theory of the Earth.

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AN EXAMINATION OF Dr. BURNET'S Theory of the Earth.

Chap. VII.

Of the Dissolution of the Primitive Earth.

HITHERTO I have refuted the Theorists for Motion, Position, and Figure, of the Primitive Earth. I am now to consider his method of Dissolving the Fabrick he has raised, and to Examin how and by what causes, the first Earth which had all the Beauty of Youth and Blooming Nature, Fresh and Fruitful, and not a Wrinkle or Scar on all its Body, came to be dissolved; how the Fabrick was broke, and the Frame of the whole torn in pieces, how it came to be a shattered and confused heap of Bodies, as we now see it, placed in no order one to another, nor with any correspondency or regularity of parts, as the Theorist represents it to be.

He tells us that one would soon imagin that such a structure as that of the first Earth was, would not be perpetual nor last many thousands of years, if

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