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Article: Tides and their effects. (includes related articles)
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- Oceanus
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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The great Master of Philosophy drowned himself, because he could not apprehend the Cause of Tydes; but his Example cannot be so prevalent with all, as to put a Period to other Mens Inquiries into this subject.
Richard Bolland, 1675
We may be surprised by this mythical account of Aristotle's reaction to the complicated currents of the Euripus in Greece, and assume that "other Mens Inquiries" have long since solved all the problems of tides in the world's oceans. But much of our understanding of the effects of tides in the coastal ocean is recent, and some important puzzles remain. Interest in tidal problems ebbs and flows like the tides themselves, but it is ...