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... will happen about the third lunar hour. Out of the syzygies and quadratures, the greatest tide, which by the single force of the moon ought to fall out at the third lunar hour, and by the single force of the sun at the third solar hour, by the compounded...

New Dynamical Wave-theory of the Tides: Discovery of the Physical Cause of ... - Page 62
by United States. Hydrographic Office, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See - 1926 - 91 pages
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Isaac Newton, 1642-1727: A Memorial Volume Edited for the Mathematical ...

Mathematical Association - 1927 - 222 pages

...compounded forces of both must fall out in an intermediate time that approaches nearer to " that " of the Moon than to that of the Sun. And therefore...Moon is passing from the syzygies to the quadratures . . . the greatest height of the waters will . . . precede " that due " to the Moon . . . and that...

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