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The Earth formation cycle of Burner (1684)
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In 1792, barely four years after Bernier’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bernier seminal paper on quietism, a mu c-cited book with the intirguing title ‘Archeologi ae philosophicae: sive Doctrina anqua de rerum organibus’ appeared in England. Its author, Thomas Burnet, (1635-1715) was famous for having written one of the great books about origin, namely ‘The Sacred Theory of the Earth’ www.cedarcitylodge.org/books/sacred_theory_of_earth.pdf . In the ‘Sacred Theory’ he proposed a stunning theory of earth formation that attempted to bridge his interpretation on the Bible’s creation story and scientific knowledge. Burner explained in detail how globe first coagulated from a mass of chaotic particles of matter into the shape of an egg, how it then gained a perfect sphere form, how a crust completely free of irregularities hardened on this structure, and how the crust was gradually bakes by the action of the sun. .. . . Page 159

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