 | Nautical astronomy - 1821 - 708 pages
...greatest height it is said to be high-wattr, and when it is done falling it is called loto-iDaler. The cause of the. tides is the unequal attraction...with a greater force than they do its centre : and attract the centre more than they do the opposite surface. To restore this equilibrium the waters take... | |
 | Edmund March Blunt - Nautical charts - 1822 - 600 pages
...its greatest height it is said to be high-water, und when it is done falling it is called law-water. The cause of the tides is the unequal attraction of...with a greater force than they do its centre : and attract the centre more than they do the opposite surface. To restore this equilibrium the waters take... | |
 | Thomas Kirkland Glazebrook - 1825 - 222 pages
...twice to fall in about 24f hours ; and these risings and fallings a.re called Tides. This arises from the unequal attraction of the Sun and Moon upon different parts of the Earth, the parts near to the Sun and Moon being attracted towards those bodies by a greater force than those... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...its greatest height it is said to be high-water, and when it is done falling it is called low-water. The cause of the tides is the unequal attraction of...with a greater force than they do its centre : and attract the centre more than they do the opposite surface. To restore this .equilibrium the waters... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 300 pages
...largest class, as Lake Superior, or the Caspian, have no perceptible tide. 195. Tides are caused by the unequal attraction of the sun and moon upon different parts of the earth. Suppose the projectile force by which the earth is carried forward in her orbit, to be suspended, and... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 308 pages
...largest class, as Lake Superior, or the Caspian, have no perceptible tide. 280. Tides are caused by the unequal attraction of the sun and moon upon different parts of the earth. Suppose the projectile force by which the earth is carried forward in her orbit, to be suspended, and... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1844 - 336 pages
...comes in a mighty wave, seen thirty miles oft', and roaring with a loud noise. 251. Tides are caused by the unequal attraction of the sun and moon upon different parts of the earth. We shall attend hereafter more particularly to the subject of universal gravitation, by which all bodies,... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 854 pages
...greatest height, it is said to be high water ; and when it is done falling, it is called low water. The cause of the tides is the unequal attraction of...with a greater force than they do its centre, and attract the centre more than they do the opposite surface. To restore the equilibrium, the waters take... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1852 - 312 pages
...comes in a mighty wave, seen thirty miles off, and roaring with a loud noise. 251. Tides are caused by the unequal attraction of the sun and moon upon different parts of the earth. We shall attend hereafter more particularly to the subje_ct of universal gravitation, by which all... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 318 pages
...largest class, as Lake Superior, or the Caspian, have no perceptible tide. 195. Tides are caused by the unequal attraction of the sun and moon upon different parts of the earth. Suppose the projectile force by which the earth is carried forward in her orbit, to be suspended, and... | |
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The cause of the tides is the unequal attraction of the sun and moon upon different parts of the earth. For they attract the parts of the earth's surface nearest to them, with a greater force than they do its centre : and attract the centre more than... 
