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Toward absolute time: The undermining and refutation of the Aristotelian conception of time in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Piero E. Ariotti Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A.
Pages 31-50 | Published online: 22 Aug 2006

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