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Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715)5
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The history of the heavens considered according to the notions of the poets and philosophers : compared with the doctrines of Moses (v.1)

Pluche, Noël Antoine (1688-1761); De Freval, John Baptist

1740

Errata: p. [xii] v. 1 (for both volumes). Apparently a translation of the French La Haye edition of 1740. Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes index.

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The history of the heavens considered according to the notions of the poets and philosophers : compared with the doctrines of Moses (v.2)

Pluche, Noël Antoine (1688-1761); De Freval, John Baptist

1740

Errata: p. [xii] v. 1 (for both volumes). Apparently a translation of the French La Haye edition of 1740. Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes index.

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Telluris theoria sacra: orbis nostri originem & mutationes generales, quas aut jam subiit, aut olim subiturus est, complectens. Libri duo posteriores de conflagratione mundi, et de futuro rerum statu

Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715)

1689

First edition. With an additional engraved titlepage, astronomical illustrations and a final advertisement leaf (booklist of Walter Kettilby). Part.4 has a separate titlepage dated 1688. Pagination ...

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Telluris theoria sacra : orbis nostri originem & mutationes generales, quas aut jam subiit, aut olim subiturus est, complectens

Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715)

1681

Dedication signed: T. Burnetius. Liber secundus (p. [139]-306) has special t.-p. Catalogus librorum... G. Kettilby: p. [307]. First leaf blank.

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The phenomenon of man

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1881-1955); Wall, Bernard (1908-); Huxley, Julian (1887-1975)

1965, c1959

Translation of: "Le phénomène humain". 1955; translated by Bernard Wall. First published in English: Collins, 1959. Revised translation first published: 1965.

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The world view of physics

Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich Freiherr von (1912-2007)

[1952]

Includes index.

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The myth of the eternal return

Eliade, Mircea (1907-1986); Trask, Willard R (1900-1980)

1955

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Le phénomène humain

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1881-1955)

1955

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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 all things. The two fisrt [sic] books concerning the deluge, and concerning paradise

Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715); Kettilby, Walter (1717); Norton, Roger (fl. 1662-1691)

1691

Dedication signed: Thomas Burnet. Added engraved t.p., ill., with title: The sacred theory of the earth. Book 2 has own t.p.

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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 all things. The two last books, concerning the burning of the world, and concerning the new heavens and new earth

Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715); Kettilby, Walter (1717); Norton, Roger (fl. 1662-1691)

1690

Dedication signed: T. Burnet. Added engraved t.p., ill., with title: The sacred theory of the earth. Book 4 has own t.p.

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