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Newtonian Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Raymond Mercier
Raymond Mercier
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University of Southampton
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , July 1979 , pp. 211 - 217
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1979

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