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They engendered a great deal of controversy at the time, and Burnet defended himself against selected critics, John Keill and Erasmus Warren. [6] Isaac Newton was an admirer of Burnet's theological approach to geological processes. Newton even wrote to Burnet, suggesting the possibility that when God created the Earth, the days were longer. [8]
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 ...
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time is a 1987 history of geology by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author offers a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of the English theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell.
Thomas Barton (Royalist) Ralph Battell; Richard Baxter; Thomas Bedford (theologian) Robert Bennet (theologian) Thomas Blake (minister) Zachary Bogan; Robert Bolton (clergyman, born 1572) Hugh Broughton; George Bull; Anthony Burges; Thomas Burnet (theologian) Henry Burton (theologian)
Thomas Braddock (priest) Hugh Broughton; Thomas Browne (Master of Christ's College, Cambridge) Thomas Burnet (theologian) J. W. Burrow; C. David Cannadine; James ...
Ralph Burnet — who founded from scratch a powerhouse Minnesota real estate company that's helped transform the way people buy and sell houses — died Tuesday in Minneapolis at age 78.
Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed at a town's bus station. Thomas Taylor died in hospital after the incident at 17:50 GMT on Wednesday ...
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