ABSTRACT
Sir Isaac NEWTON (1642 - 1727) had written in Latin his capital work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), [360]. He had completed this fundamental monograph on 8 May, 1686. It was published first by July 5, 1687. It became a founding column of the modern science, in which Newton wrote the following about time:
I. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and
from its own nature, flows equaly without relation to
anything external, and by another name is called duration:
relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and
external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of
duration by the means of motion, which is commonly
used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month,
a year.
