Chapter III: The Tides

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Description of the Phenomenon.--Devastation of Storm-Floods on Flat
Coasts.--What did the Ancients know of the Tides?--Their Fundamental
Causes revealed by Kepler and Newton.--Development of their Theory by
La Place, Euler, and Whewell.--Vortices caused by the Tides.--The
Maelstrom.--Charybdis.--The _Barre_ at the mouth of the Seine.--The
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