Elizabeth Burnet [SEP] date of birth
Elizabeth Burnet
Elizabeth Burnet ("née" Blake; 8 November 1661 – 3 December 1709) was an English philanthropist and author of a prayer book, "A Method of Devotion".
Life.
Elizabeth Blake was born near Southampton in 1661 and brought up a Puritan by her parents Sir Richard and Elizabeth Blake. Her first husband, Robert Berkeley, was the ward of her godfather John Fell, the Bishop of Oxford. After her godfather died and the Catholic James II came to the throne, she persuaded
have survived; only fragments are known from his vast body of work.
Life.
Democritus was said to be born in the city of Abdera in Thrace, an Ionian colony of Teos, although some called him a Milesian.
He was born in the 80th Olympiad (460–457 BC) according to Apollodorus of Athens, and although Thrasyllus placed his birth in 470 BC, the later date is probably more likely.
John Burnet has argued that the date of 460 is "too early" since, according