Description: Tidal physics has puzzled some of the world's greatest scientists and mathematicians, from Galileo to Descartes. This book provides a history of the study of fides over two millennia, from the primitive ideas of the Ancient Greeks to present sophisticated space-age techniques. It shows how famous scientists, including Bacon, Kepler, Newton, Bernoulli, Euler, Laplace, Young, Whewell, Airy, Kelvin, G. Darwin, H. Lamb, have contributed to .our understanding of tides. The volume is amply illustrated with diagrams from historical scientific papers, photographs of artifacts, and portraits of some of the subject's leading protagonists. It will particularly interest specialists in oceanography, hydrography, geophysics, geodesy, astronomy and navigation.

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