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Emily Thomas explores the development of absolute time or eternal duration during one of Britain's richest and most creative metaphysical periods, from the 1640 to the 1730s. She introduces an Interconnected set of main characters Henry More, Walter Charleton, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, John toon meer Locke, Samuel Clarke, and John Jackson alongside a large and varied supporting cast, whose metaphysical views are all read in their historical context and given a place in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century development of thought about time. toon minder