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TWO articles under the above title by G. Windred have been published in Isis, 19 and 20, in 1933. In the first the author traces the development of the concept of mathematical time from its origins with Napier, Barrow and Leibniz up to the theory of pure time of Sir William Rowan Hamilton. Within the short space of some thirty pages, the author gives an excellent account of Barrow's theory of mathematical time, which formed the basis of the time concept in Newtonian mechanics for more than two centuries. He traces the progress of the concept in the writings of Newton, Maclaurin and Kant, and concludes with a brief account of Hamilton's views on algebra as the science of pure time.
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History of Mathematical Time. Nature 133, 388 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133388a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133388a0