“The theory of the tides has been reduced into an extremely simple form, which appears to agree better with all the phenomena, than the more intricate calculations which they have commonly been supposed to require.”

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A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)

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English polymath 1773–1829

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