Ideas of different stages in the formation of

Ideas of different stages in the formation of the Earth. Engraving from The Sacred Theory of the Earth by Thomas Burnet (London, 1817). Thomas Burnet (1635-1715) English theologian and writer on cosmogony, born at Croft near Darlington, County Durham, England. His ideas on the formation and structure of the earth were speculative and unscientific

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