1684-90, 1st English Ed, FOLIO, BURNET, THE SACRED THEORY OF THE EARTH, GEOLOGY
$ 1584.0
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[Burnet, Thomas] The Sacred 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 Consumption of All Things. The Two First Books, Concerning the Deluge and Concerning Paradise. London: Printed by R. Norton, for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop’s Head in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1684 First English-language edition [Bound with:] The Sacred 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 Consumption of All Things. The Last Two Books, Concerning the Burning of the World, and Concerning the New Heavens and the New Earth. London: Printed by R. Norton, for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop’s Head in St. Paul’s Church-Yard 1690 First English-language edition. [Also bound with:] A Review of the Theory of the Earth, and of Its Proofs: Especially in Reference to Scripture. London: Printed by R. Norton, for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop’s Head in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1690 First edition Folio, xvi, 327, xi, 224, 52, [1] pages, period full leather binding, professionally rebacked with raised bands, gilt-lettered label and gilt decoration to compartments. Both volumes illustrated with frontispieces, two double page plates in volume one and several black-and-white illustrations. Several inscriptions by previous owners. Some discoloration and soiling, scattered foxing, paper repair to the title page of the first volume, rubbing and wear along corners and edges, scuffs, else in good + condition. The Sacred Theory of the Earth by Thomas Burnet is a landmark work of late-seventeenth-century natural philosophy, in which Burnet advanced a bold attempt to reconcile biblical history—especially Creation, the Flood, and the world’s ultimate destruction—with a rational and systematic explanation of the Earth’s origin and structure. First published in English in 1684 and continued in 1690, the work proposes that the primeval Earth was originally smooth and perfectly ordered, its present mountains and seas having formed through catastrophic geological collapse. The theory was widely read and fiercely debated, and that controversy is preserved in this copy by the inclusion, bound at the rear, of A Review of the Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690), a contemporary critique that challenges Burnet’s speculative cosmology from a more rigorously mathematical and Newtonian perspective. Together, Burnet’s treatise and its near-simultaneous rebuttal form a self-contained record of one of the most significant early controversies in the history of geology and cosmology, capturing a pivotal moment in the transition from theological system-building to modern scientific thought. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and don't forget to check out my other listings.
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