An introduction to astronomy : designed as a text book for the students of Yale College (1846)
Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859, Yale College (1718-1887) · New York : Collins, Brother & Co. · leaf 194
, as in figure 57,* the rota-tion of the earth on its axis NS will make the two tides exactlyequal on opposite sides of the earth. Thus a place which is car-ried through the parallel TT will have the height of one tide T2and the other tide T3. The tides are in this case greatest at theequator, and…
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