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Rhythmic variations of sea level, known as tides, have been observed by sailors and coastal communities for thousands of years. From the earliest time it has been realized that there is some connection between tides and the motion of the Moon and Sun. However, it was only in the seventeenth century that Isaac Newton (1642–1723) and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) provided the theoretical explanation of the nature of tides and opened the door for tidal prediction.
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Massel, S.R. (1999). Tides. In: Fluid Mechanics for Marine Ecologists. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60209-2_5
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