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Re: Bowditch on Tides
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2003 Dec 25, 16:33 +0100
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2003 Dec 25, 16:33 +0100
Frank wrote: >Does anyone know when Norie fixed the inaccuracy? It wouldn't suprise me much if Bowditch always trailed until the end of the century. In 1831, Norie's Epitome says: "But these tides (i.e. spring and neap tide) do not happen till a day or two after above times (i.e. of the full and new Moon)" (p.102). Jan Kalivoda
