Значение слова BURNET в Литературной энциклопедии

THOMAS (1635?-1715).-Theologian and writer on cosmogony, was _b._ at Croft near Darlington, and _ed._ at Camb., and became Master of Charterhouse and Clerk of the Closet to William III. His literary fame rests on his _Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth_, _pub._ about 1692, first in Latin and afterwards in English, a work which, in absence of all scientific knowledge of the earth's structure, was necessarily a mere speculative cosmogony. It is written, however, with much eloquence. Some of the views expressed in another work, _Archaeolgiae Philosophicae_, were, however, so unacceptable to contemporary theologians that he had to resign his post at Court.