Thomas Burnet

Thomas Burnet (* 1635 in Croft -on-Tees in Darlington, † September 27, 1715 ) was an English theologian and theorist of cosmogony.

He studied at Cambridge University and was Chairman of Charterhouse and minister at the court of William III. His literary success is based on its Telluris Theoria Sacra, also Sacred Theory of the Earth, which was first in Latin and later published in the English language - a work that was written without scientific knowledge of the structure of the earth and as such primarily a speculative cosmogony represents. Some of his set out in a later work views the Archaeologiae Philosophicae, however, were so unacceptable to contemporary theologians that Burnet had to resign his position at court.

In Telluris Theoria Sacra he believes the world was indeed created by God in a beautiful and regular form, but did it change at the Flood in its current ugly form. Rocks and mountains were the most deformed in this regard. Such a landscape inspiring a raised impression.

Work

• Telluris theoria sacra (London, 1680)
• Archaeologiae philosophicae sive doctrina antiqua de rerum originibus (London, 1692 )
• De Fide et Officiis Christianorum (1723 )
• De Statu mortuorum et resurgentium (1723 )
• Restauration de futurae Judaeorum

Swell

This article is largely based on the English and the French articles on Burnet and Carsten on cell: aesthetics of the sublime. From Longin to Lyotard. Part I. Text, Copenhagen: 1999. ( In the series: Reader Hagen University, No. 10 /1999)

A detailed discussion of Burnet Telluris Theoria Sacra is found in Stephen Jay Gould, The Discovery of Deep Time, 1987 ( German 1990).

• Author
• Briton
• English
• Born in the 17th century
• Died in 1715
• Man