The elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy, for the use of colleges and academies (1872)
White, Charles J. (Charles Joyce), 1839-1917 · Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger · leaf 154
n order to examine the phenomena of the tides, we will con-sider the earth to be a solid globe, surrounded by a shell ofwater of uniform depth. The centrifugal force induced by therotation of the earth would tend to give a spheroidal form tothis shell of wTater; but as we wish simply to examine the… … oif Fig. 62. line GHIK the surrounding shell of water. Let M be the moon.The attraction of the moon on the solid mass of the earth is the TIDES. 147 &ame that it would be if the whole mass were concentrated atthe point E. Now since, by the law of gravitation, the at-traction of the moon on any…
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