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RefNoAP/19/7
Previous numbersAP.19.7
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'A theory of the tides, including a theory of the formation and propagation of the waves' by Paul Cooper
Date10 March 1835
DescriptionCooper applies the principle announced in his paper on the Theory of Sound, namely, that of a continual transfer of state between the adjacent atoms of a medium, to the case of oscillating columns of fluid, constituting waves and tides. Marked by Peter Mark Roget as 'not to be printed'.

Subject: Physics / Hydrodynamics

Received 13 March 1835 by John George Children. Read 18 June 1835.

Written by Cooper at Bawlish, Shepton Mallet [Somerset, England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A theory of the tides, including a theory of the formation and propagation of waves'.
Extent30p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0213
RelatedRecordMC/2/163
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