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BURNET, THOMAS (b. Croft, Yorkshire, England,
ca. 1635; d. London, England, 27 September 1715),
cosmogony, geology.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1720), trans. into English as Of the State of the Dead and
of Those That Are to Rise (partial ed., London, 1727;
complete ed., 1728); De fide et officiis Christianorum
(London, 1722), trans. into English as The Faith and Duties
of Christians (London, 1728); De future Judaeorum restauratione
(London, 1727), an appendix to the 1727 ed. of
De statu mortuorum; and A Re-survey of the Mosaic System
of the Creation With Rules for the Right Judging and
Interpreting of Scripture. In Two Letters to a Friend (London,
1728).
Works published anonymously but credited to Burnet
are Remarks Upon an Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
[by J. Locke] in a Letter Addressed to the Author
(London, 1697); Second Remarks Upon an Essay Concerning
Human Understanding. In a Letter Address'd to the
Author: Being a Vindication of the First Remarks Against
the Answer of Mr. Locke at the End of His Reply to the
Bishop of Worcester (London, 1697); Third Remarks Upon
an Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In a Letter
Addressed to the Author (London, 1699); and An Appeal
to Common Sense: or, a Sober Vindication of Dr.
Woodward's State of Physick. By a Divine of the Church
of England (London, 1719).
II. SECONDARY LITERATURE.
Marjorie Hope Nicolson,
Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development
of the Aesthetics of the Infinite (Ithaca, N.Y., 1959), pp.
184-270, concerns Burnet and his work.
There is no bibliography on Burnet, but the following
works on The Theory of the Earth may be helpful: John
Beaumont, “Considerations on a Book Entitled The Theory
of the Earth Published Some Years Since by the Learned
Dr. Burnet,” in Philosophical Transactions,17 (Sept.
1693),
888-892, and A Postscript to a Book Entituled Considerations
on Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth (London, 1694);
Herbert Crofts, Some Animadversions Upon a Book
Intituled the Theory of the Earth (London, 1685); Robert
Hooke, “Animadversions on Burnet's Theory, 1689,” MS
at the Royal Society, London; John Keill, An Examination
of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth, Together With Some
Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth
(Oxford, 1698), and An Examination of the Reflections on
the Theory of the Earth Together With a Defense of the
Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory (Oxford, 1699);
Melchoir Leydekker, M. Leydeckeri de republica
Hebraeorum . . . subjicitur archaelogia sacra, qua historia
creationis et diluvii Mosica contra Burneti profanam telluris
theoriam asseritur (Amsterdam, 1704); Archibald Lovell,
A Summary of Material Heads Which May Be Enlarged
and Improved into a Compleat Answer to Dr. Burnet's
Theory of the Earth (London, 1696); Matthew Mackaile,
Terrae prodromus theoricus. Containing a Short Account of
the New System of Order and Gradation, in the World's
Creation. By Way of Animadversions Upon Mr. T. Burnet's
Theory of His Imaginary Earth, etc. (Aberdeen, 1691);
Robert St. Clair, The Abyssinian Philosopher Confuted; or,
Telluris theoria Neither Sacred nor Agreeable to Reason
(London, 1697); Christianus Wagner, Animadversions in
. . . T. Burnetii Telluris theoriam sacram, etc. (Leipzig, n.d.);
and Erasmus Warren, Geologia; or, a Discourse Concerning
the Earth Before the Deluge, Wherein the Form and Properties
Ascribed to It, in a Book Intituled the Theory of the
Earth, Are Excepted Against and It Is Made to Appear That
the Dissolution of That Earth Was Not the Cause of the
Universal Flood (London, 1690); A Defense of the Discourse
Concerning the Earth Before the Flood: Being a Full Reply
to a Late Answer to Exceptions Made Against the Theory
of the Earth, etc. (London, 1691); and Some Reflections
Upon the Short Consideration of the Defense of the Exceptions
Against the Theory of the Earth (London, 1692).