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Astronomy for schools and general readers (1892)
Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920, Philips, G. M. (George Morris), 1851-1920, joint author · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company · leaf 124
hour later every day. This remark-able connection between the moon and the tides wasnoticed in very ancient times, and men knew that themoon in some way caused the tides, long before theycould explain how it caused them. Sir Isaac Newtonwas the first to show just how they were caused by themoon.… … © Fig. 26.—The Tides. High tide at 0 and D. Low tide at the two points half-way be-tween, immediately in front of and behind the middle of the figure. on the side of the earth nearest to the moon is morestrongly attracted by the moon than the earth itself isattracted by it, the water is heaped up…Astronomy
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