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Beyond The Moon: A Conversational, Common Sense Guide To Understanding The Tides
Author(s): James Greig Mccully (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication Date: 16 Jan. 2006
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 9812566430
- ISBN-13: 9789812566430
Book Description
Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, Beyond the Moon describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is impressed upon the earth’s oceans, and how the hydraulics over the continental shelf and the geography of the coastline orchestrate this rhythm into the bewildering variety of tide patterns seen around the globe. This volume demystifies the complexity of the tides by systematically examining its many constituents and demonstrates that: “Nature is, at once, awesome in complexity and beautiful in simplicity.”
Editorial Reviews
Review
?McCully’s dissection of the sciences eases the journey and his prose is very readable, even literary at times …”
