Elements of astronomy ... with explanatory notes, and questions for examination (1855)
Brocklesby, John, 1811-1889 · New York, Farmer, Brace & co. · leaf 291
lace. When the moon, for example, has her great-est northern declination, the daily high tides will behighest in all those places in the northern hemisphere wherethe moon is above the horizon, and lowest where she isbelow the horizon. In the southern hemisphere the phe-nomena are reversed; the… … 700. Actual heights of the Tide. The theoreticalheight of the tide does not correspond to the real height.This difference is owing to local causes, such as the unionof two tides or the rushing of the tide wave into a nar-row channel. In the latter case the advance of the tideis often very rapid,…
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