Theory of Tides - Origin of Theory

Origin of Theory

In 1616, Galileo Galilei wrote Discourse on the Tides (in Italian: Discorso del flusso e reflusso del mare), a paper in which he tried to explain the occurrence of the tides as the result of the Earth's rotation around the Sun. However, Galileo's theory was, in the later Newtonian terms, an error. In subsequent centuries, further analysis led to the current tidal physics.

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