A compendium of astronomy; containing the elements of the science, familiarly explained and illustrated, with the latest discoveries. Adapted to the use of schools and academies, and of the general reader (1850)
Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859 · New York, R. B. Collins · leaf 174
the diagram, therefore, drawn injust proportions, the alteration of figure produced by the tides wouldbe wholly insensible. TIDES. 161 the height of one tide T2 and the other tide T3.The tides are in this case greatest at the equator, anddiminish gradually to the poles, where it will be lowwater… … ,^M
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