 | Académie royale des sciences (France) - 1742 - 468 pagine
...the leaft that can happen in the courfe of a month, and becaufe according to experience the effect of the moon is greater than that of the fun, the greateft height of the fea rrraft happen at the third lunar hour. He calk the htnar hour the 24th part of the time that the... | |
 | United States. Hydrographic Office, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See - 1926 - 126 pagine
...raises, and from the difference of their forces the smallest of all tides will follow. And because (as experience tells us) the force of the moon is greater than that of the sun, the greatest height of the waters will happen about the third lunar hour. Out of the syzygies... | |
 | Mathematical Association - 1927 - 222 pagine
...raises, and from the difference of their forces, the smallest of all tides will follow. And because (as experience tells us) the force of the Moon is .greater than that of the Sun, the greatest height of the waters will happen jabout the " time of lunar tide. " Out of the syzygies... | |
 | Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen - 2004 - 230 pagine
...flood and ebb. In the quadratures the Sun will raife the waters which the Moon deprefleth, and dcprcfs the waters which the Moon raifeth, and from the difference...the force of the Moon is greater than that of the Sun, the greateft height of the water will happen about the third' lunar hour. Out of the fyzygies... | |
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... the luminaries their forces will be conjoined and bring on the greatest flood and ebb. In the quadratures the sun will raise the waters which the moon depresses, and depress the waters which the moon raises, and from the difference of their forces... 