Description | Colepresse describes how the diurnal tides from about the latter end of March till the latter end of September are about a foot higher (perpendicular, which is alwayes to be understood) in the evening, than in the morning. He states that this research was in response to queries proposed in the Philosophical Transactions.
Subject: Oceanography
Read to the Royal Society on 16 January 1668
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of some observations, made by Mr. Samuel Colepresse at and nigh Plymouth, A. 1667. by way of answer to some of the quæries concerning tydes, propos'd Numb. 17 and 18' |