851J Thomas Burnet (at Charter House.) 1635?-1715 The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone or is to undergo till the consummation of... Continue Reading →
The two books offered today were both written in order to align later seventeenth century theories of the earth with the results of scientific exploration and a fair bit of conjecture with the anglican faith. The ideas set forth here... Continue Reading →
The second half of the seventeenth especially in England marked a period where, in hindsight it might seen easy to separate conservative, theological practitioners of Cosmology and those proto-enlightenment thinkers. These four books certainly challenge and exhibit the true nature... Continue Reading →
Today I offer four English books on cosmology from the second half of the seventeenth century. [From the Botton]. Burnet's Theory of the Sacred Earth, Hale'sOrigination of Mankind, Grew's Cosmologis Sacra. and on top Ray's Discourses concerning the dissolution and... Continue Reading →
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