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Bibliographical reference

Burnet, Thomas. Telluris theoria sacra: orbis nostri originem & mutationes generales, quas aut jam subiit, aut olim subiturus est, complectens. Libri duo priores de diluvio et paradiso. London: Typis R. Norton. Impensis Gualt. Kettilby, 1681.

Description

The English theologian Thomas Burnet (1635-1715) published his best-known work Telluris theoria sacra in 1681 (first volume) and 1689 (second volume), which deals with the nature of the world before the Flood and the origin of the Flood. This treatise has been translated into English as The Theory of the Earth (I: 1684; II: 1690; both repr. 1697). Burnet describes a cosmogony based on the Biblical tradition. Isaac Newton was a reader of Burnet’s Telluris theoria sacra, especially as regards the theological approach to geological processes, and started a correspondence with Burnet concerning the number and the length of the days in which God created the Earth.