Selection Includes: (1) "On the Empirical Laws of the Tides in the Port of London", 1834, pp 15-43. (2) "On the results of Tidal Observations made in June 1834", 1835, pp 83-90. (3) "Researches on the Tides Fourth Series. On the Empirical Laws of the Tides of Liverpool", pp 1835, pp 1-15. (4) "Researches on the Tides Fifth Series. On the Solar Inequality and on the Diurnal Equality of the Tides of Liverpool" 1836 pp 131-147, with one chart. (5) "Researches on the Tides Sixth Series. On the Results of an extensive System of Tide Observations made on the coasts of Europe and America in June 1835." 1836, pp 289-341, with 3 large-ish folding maps and one plate. **See below for the rest of the titles**

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--continued from TITLES section: (7) "Researches on the Tides Ninth series. On the Determination of the Laws of the Tides from short Series of Observations", 1838, pp 231-247. (8) "Researches on Tides Tenth Series. On the Laws of Low Water at the Port of Plymouth and on the Permenancy of Mean Water" 1839, pp 151-161. (9) "Researches on Tides Eleventh Series. On certain Tide Observations made in the Indian Seas". 1839, pp 163-213 (mostly unopened). (10) "Additional not to the Eleventh Series of Researches on Tides" 1840, pp 161-174. (11) "Researches on the Tides Twelfth Series. On the Laws of the Rise ad Fall of the Sea's Surface during each Tide" 1840, pp 255-272. (12) "The Bakerian Lecture. Researches on the Tides. Thirteenth Series. On the Tides of the Pacific and on the Diurnal Inequality." 1847, pp 1-29, with 5 large-ish folding maps. [++]These are 8 of the long 12-part series by Whewell on Tides. [++] "Between 1833 and 1850 Whewell published fourteen memoirs on the tides. Before the 1830 s little reliable observation of the tides had been undertaken: and the two leading theories, the Newton-Bernoulli equilibrium theory and the Laplace dynamical theory, were largely untested. The British Admiralty and the British Association initiated work on the tides that soon became international in scale. Whewell, with the help of John Lubbock, received and interpreted observations from all over the world; their work earned them the Royal Medal. Whewell s investigation of the tides began with an attempt to apply Thomas Young s idea of cotidal lines to the world s oceans. Had the idea applied, it would have allowed plotting the movements of tidal waves through all the oceans on the basis of initial observations of simultaneous high tides at different places. Whewell abandoned the idea in its general application, however, although the application of the idea did obtain some results for small, confined bodies of water and for shorelines.Whewell stressed the diurnal inequality of the tides ( that which makes the tide of the morning and evening of the same day at the same place, differ both in height and time of high water, according to a law depending on the time of the year ). He showed large variations in this effect in accordance with local circumstances and thought the inequality to be more basic than other features of the tides. From the failure of the idea of cotidal lines and the empirical prominence of the daily inequality,Whewell concluded that no theory of physical astronomy could account for tidal phenomena in a general way. Instead, the variety and multiplicity of the data suggested that detailed study of each individual shoreline was required. Given this conclusion, it is not surprising that Whewell s work did not contribute directly to theory of the tides. Consistent with the principles of his own philosophy of science, however, he could regard himself as having fathered the science of the tides. He thought that the beginning of a science involved the laborious collection and organization of data; full theoretical generality, if any, would come later."--Complete DSB Online. ** ALL of these papers are extracts. **.…

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Selection Includes: (1) "On the Empirical Laws of the Tides in the Port of London", 1834, pp 15-43. (2) "On the results of Tidal Observations made in June 1834", 1835, pp 83-90. (3) "Researches on the Tides Fourth Series. On the Empirical Laws of the Tides of Liverpool", pp 1835, pp 1-15. (4) "Researches on the Tides Fifth Series. On the Solar Inequality and on the Diurnal Equality of the Tides of Liverpool" 1836 pp 131-147, with one chart. (5) "Researches on the Tides Sixth Series. On the Results of an extensive System of Tide Observations made on the coasts of Europe and America in June 1835." 1836, pp 289-341, with 3 large-ish folding maps and one plate. **See below for the rest of the titles**
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William Whewell--King of Tides--12 papers on tides from the Philosophical Transactions, 1834-1847, by the Father of the Science of Tides.
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