 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Eighteenth century - 1794 - 538 pages
...cause it still to move farther, than otherwise it could have done. Neither do the tides always answer to the same distance of the moon from the meridian at the same places, but are variously affeded by the action of the sun, which brings them on sooner, when the moon is in her first and third... | |
 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...greater at two in the afternoon, than when the sun is on the meridian. The tides do not always answer to the same distance of the moon from the meridian...variously affected by the action of the sun, which bring« them on sooner when the moon is in her first and third quarters, and keeps them back when ehe... | |
 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...meridian, but some time alter, &c. Besides, the tides answer not always to the same distance of Ihe moon, from the meridian, at the same places; but are...the action of the sun, which brings them on sooner when Ihe moon is in her first and third quarters, and keeps them back later when she is in her second... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...afternoon, than when the sun is on the meridian, because of the increase made to the heat already imparted, The tides answer not always to the same distance of...meridian at the same places ; but are variously affected bv the action of the sun, which brings them on sooner when the moon is in her first and third quarters,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1824 - 492 pages
...causes of the first phenomena of the tides explained. The tides, however, do not always correspond to the same distance of the moon from the meridian at the same place, but are variously affected by the action of the sun, which causes them to take place sooner,... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Astronomy - 1832 - 276 pages
...meridian, because of the increase made to the heat already imparted. The Tides do not always answer to the same distance of the Moon from the meridian...the action of the Sun? which brings them on sooner when the Moon is in her first and third quarters, and keeps them back later when she is in her second... | |
 | Joseph Guy - Astronomy - 1832 - 412 pages
...August than in June, because of the increase made lo the heat already imparted. The tides, however, answer not always to the same distance of the moon from the meridian, at the same place ; but are variously affected by the action of the sun, which brings them on sooner, when the... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Astronomy - 1832 - 276 pages
...Moon ? Are the Tides at the highest when the Moon is due north, or south ? Do the Tides always answer to the same distance of the Moon from the meridian at the same places ? Does the Moon approach nearer, and recede farther from the eanh in each of her revolutions 1 At what... | |
 | Ezra Otis Kendall - Astronomy - 1845 - 408 pages
...a moving ball will cause it to move still farther than it otherwise would have done. The tides also answer not always to the same distance of the moon from the meridian, at the same place ; but are variously affected by the action of the sun, which brings them on sooner when the moon... | |
 | Joseph Guy - Astronomy - 1845 - 370 pages
...August than in June, because of the increase made to the heat already imparted. The tides, however, answer not always to the same distance of the moon from the meridian, at the same place ; but are variously affected by the action of the sun, which brings them on sooner, when the... | |
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... but are variously affected by the action of the sun, which brings them on sooner, when the moon is in her first and third quarters ; and keeps them back later, when she is in her second and fourth. Because in the former case the tide raised by the... 
