Abstract: The first sustained, rigorous development of a structuralist view of science appeared in the writings of Bertrand Russell, where the philosophical motivation precedes a precise formulation drawing on mathematical logic. He founded theoretical physics in a mathematics constructed along logicist lines, which is also what proved his undoing at the hands of a famous review by Newman that set the pattern for later objections to structuralist views.

Keywords: representation, non-Euclidean geometry, Newman, structuralism, Bertrand Russell, mathematical logic,