tidal theory


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tidal theory:

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the sun and the surrounding planets, natural satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that are bound by its gravity. The sun is by far the most massive part of the solar system, containing almost 99.9% of the system's total mass.
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The core of the book is in the next five chapters, which discuss the British drive to develop this essential geographical component of tidal theory. Success came from the efforts of a huge and diverse network of people who collected, standardized, analyzed, and synthesized tidal data.
Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy
The close approach problem inflicting the known tidal theory is averted in this model.
On the tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon system: a cosmological model
Wallace Hooper's useful survey of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century tidal theories from Copernicus to Wallis finds in modern science a partial (but anachronistic) vindication of Galileo's maligned tidal theory, notably his attention to the shape of sea basins in explaining tidal periods.
The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
He laid the basis of tidal theory, conceiving an "equilibrium tide" that would apply to ideal conditions of a global ocean.
Tides and their seminal impact on the geology, geography, history, and socio-economics of the Bay of Fundy, eastern Canada

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