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Where did the popular idea of spacetime come from?
A nice history was given by Archibald, R.C. (1914), "Time as a fourth dimension", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 20 (8): 409–412
https://doi.org/10.1090%2FS0002-9904-1914-02511-X
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