Newton's followers, including the many here who follow the dummies of the early 20th century, assume that Newton's vocabulary was so contrived and convoluted that they exploited it with the assumption that nobody could challenge it.

"Newton objectivises space. Since he classes his absolute space together with real things, for him rotation relative to an absolute space is also something real. Newton might no less well have called his absolute space "Ether" Einstein

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/...ein_ether.html

While Newton's follower imagine Newton is defining time as absolute/relative time, in actuality he was dithering around with the Equation of Time - the timekeeping facility which distinguishes the average 24 hour day from the variable length of the natural noon cycle. Equally Newton's notion of absolute/relative space was an idiosyncratic mishmash to account for the observed motions of the planets in terms of true/apparent and projecting it into absolute/relative space and motion -

"It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and
effectually to distinguish, the true motion of particular bodies from
the apparent; because the parts of that absolute space, in which
those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation
of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have
some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which
are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which
are the causes and effects of the true motion." Newton


It is unconscionable that the work of the great astronomers, both geocentric and heliocentric, was destroyed by that muck which assumes modeling the Earth as seen from the Earth (relative space and motion) requires a separate modeling as seen from the Sun (absolute space and motion).

There was no such thing as true/apparent motions, absolute/relative motions or any other variation of that rubbish, there were just that judgement that all people have when accounting for the observed motions of the planets and what inputs the Earth's own orbital motions supplies in accounting for those motions -

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011220.html

Newton's absolute/relative space had nothing to do with 'aether', it had everything to do with the resolution for the observed behavior of the other planets .

"For to the earth planetary motions appear sometimes direct, sometimes
stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the sun they are
always seen direct,..." Newton

Any clown can mimic the language of the early 20th century and the contrived narrative that inserts people like Maxwell however all it does it expose how contrived the whole spiel actually is. Want to know what Newton was actually doing and you are all going to have to go through imaging and the actual methods of the astronomers who give so much of their time and effort.