XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1499.

XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1499.

1499.

p. 452

Theophrastus on the ebb and flow of the tide, and of eddies, and on water. 835


Footnotes

  1. 452:835

    : The Greek philosophers had no opportunity to study the phenomenon of the ebb and flow of the tide and none of them wrote about it. The movement of the waters in the Euripus however was to a few of them a puzzling problem.

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