Paper, regarding observations of the tides at Bristol [England] by Samuel Sturmy Sturmy observes that that the annual spring tides 'do happen in March and September, either at the tide next before the Sun's ingress into the equinoctial points of Aries and Libra, or the next tyde after, according as the moon is near her full or change, when the sun thus enters into the said signs.' Subject: Oceanography / Astronomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of some observations, made this year by Capt. Samuel Sturmy in Hong-road within four miles of Bristol, in answer to some of the queries concerning the tydes, in No. 17 & No. 18' 12 October 1668