, a romance that passed for science in its day, was opposed in 1696 by Whiston in his

New Theory of the Earth

(one all for Fire, the other all for Water), and the new Romance was Science even in the eyes of Locke. Addison, from Oxford in 1699, addressed a Latin ode to Burnet.

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[Footnote 2:]

Lord Cowper.

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