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"Tides - A Scientific History" by D.E. Cartwright
Some might find this book interesting:
Tides : A Scientific History David Edgar Cartwright Cambridge University Press "This book describes the growth of scientific understanding of a phenomenon which is superficially familiar but subtly complex, starting with primitive ideas in the remote past and leading up to sophisticated geophysical relationships which require modern computers and space technology for their evaluation. ..." "It is not an encyclopaedic review of modern tidal knowledge, but it is the story of how such knowledge came about." "Inevitably the subject requires the use of at least some of the terminology of elementary mathematical physics, but I have kept such terminology to the minimum necessary to make work in a wide range of disciplines intelligible to the general scientific reader who understands mathematical language, without trivialising the thought behind it." (So now you are warned) The above quotes are from the preface. Peter S/Y Anicula P.S. This recommendation, is of course inspired by the previous discussions about different explanation models, but has otherwise nothing to do with it. |
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