 | John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...and striding against the large coasts of the continents that lie in its way ; from thence rebounds back again, and so make floods and ebbs in narrow seas, and rivers remote from the great ocean. Herein we also see the reason of the times of the tides, and why they... | |
 | Tom Telescope - Science - 1808 - 188 pages
...; and the part opposite to it, on the contrary side, being least attracted, is also higher than the rest ; and these two opposite sides of the surface...rivers, at a distance from the great ocean. This also occounts for the periodical times of the tides, and for their constantly following the course of the... | |
 | Astronomy - 1808 - 290 pages
...moon from east to west, and striking against the large coasts of the continents that lie in their way, from thence rebound back again, and so make floods and ebbs in narrow seas, and rivers remote from the great ocean. As the earth, by its daily rotation round its axis, goes from the moon... | |
 | John Locke - 1844 - 272 pages
...moon from east to west, and striking against the large coasts of the continents that lie in its way ; from thence rebound back again, and so make floods and ebbs in narrow seas, and rivers remote from the great ocean. Herein we also see the reason of the times of the tides, and why they... | |
 | Edward Conant - English language - 1887 - 164 pages
...moon from east to west, and striking against the large coasts of the continents that lie in their way, from thence rebound back again, and so make floods and ebbs in narrow seas, and rivers remote from the great ocean. (9) Herein we also see the reason of the times of the tides, and why they... | |
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... part opposite to it on the contrary side, being least attracted, is also higher than the rest. And these two opposite rises of the surface of the water in the great ocean, following the motion of the moon from east to west, and striking against the... 