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FEW points in physical geography have had more interest for scientific men than the tides of the Mediterranean. Connected with the Atlantic only by a strait of a few miles in width, this inland sheet of water is so effectually shut off from the general tidal movements of the main ocean, that it has often been called a “tideless sea.” But this is not correct; for, having an extent of surface of some 700,000 or 800,000 square miles, it is sufficiently large to be itself specially affected by the attraction of the sun and moon, and thus it possesses a true, although small, tide of its own.
Az Arapály Fiumei Obölben (The Tides in the Roadstead of Fiume).
Prize Essay, published by the Royal Philosophical Society of Hungary. By E. Stahlberger., Professor in the Imperial Royal Marine Academy. (Buda-Pesth, 1874, 4to., pp. 109, with plates and copious tables.)
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The Tides of the Mediterranean . Nature 12, 43–45 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012043a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012043a0
