The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 87
-tic, the greater wouldbe the variation in thelength of the days andnights, and the moreextreme the changesj-;g 8j of the seasons. Tides.72. Tides.—The alternate rise and fall of the surface ofthe sea twice in the course of a lunar day, or of twenty-fourhours and fifty-one minutes, is known as the…
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