 | Mathematical Association - 1927 - 222 pagine
...preceding the other by 6 hours ; and suppose the first tide to happen at the third hour of the appulse of the Moon to the meridian of the port. If the Moon at the time of the appulse to the meridian was in the equator, every six hours alternately there would arise equal... | |
 | Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen - 2004 - 230 pagine
...former whereof precedes the other by the fpace of fix hours ; and happens at the third or twenty-fevcnth hour from the appulfe of the Moon to the meridian...declined from the equator, the tides in the ocean would be alternately greater and lefs as was faid. And from hence two greater and two Idler tides would... | |
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... same tide, divided into two or more succeeding one another, may compound new motions of different kinds. Let us suppose two equal tides flowing towards the same port from different places... 