Nautical science in its relation to practical navigation, together with a study of the tides and tidal currents (1910)
Poor, Charles Lane, 1866- · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 278
The Cause of the Tides 243 average particle of the earth at C is greater than that for a particle at B, for B is at a greater dis- tance from the moon than is C. The moon tends to pull the earth as a whole away from the particle … Fig. 22.—Tide-generating Forces B, thus diminishing the force of gravity and causing a lifting force. At D and E and all points where the moon would be on the horizon, the effect of the attraction is to increase gravity, to pull bodies toward the centre of the earth. At D, a 4000-ton ship would…
Nautical astronomy
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