Thomas Burnet

(1635 c.-1715)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715 DNB: Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715), natural philosopher and headmaster LBT ID: ThBurne1715 VIAF ID: 68938902 LOC ID: n83012090	B/BAP: 1635 DIED: 1715-09-27
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Master of the Charterhouse (1685-1715); as a theologian and natural philosopher he was influenced by the Cambridge Platonists. He published Telluris theoria sacra (1681)
REFERENCES TO Thomas Burnet: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Sketches of the Living Poets. No. 4—Mr. Coleridge” in The Examiner (21 October 1821) 664-67 Found 1: ¶ 4 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXI. Found 1: ¶ 32 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 9 Found 1: ¶ 30