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RefNoRBO/3/39
AltRefNoRBO.3.123
LevelItem
Title'Of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea; As it was first written to My Boyle from Oxford' by John Wallis
Date25 April 1666
DescriptionTheory about how the earth, moon and sun affect the tides (figures to show motion)
Read to the Royal Society on 16 May 1666
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 1, no 16, p 263
LanguageEnglish
Extent21 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0108
RelatedRecordRBC/2/78
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7472Wallis; John (1616 - 1703); mathematician and cryptographer1616 - 1703
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