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Fishing: structures designed to trap fish brought in by the tides. Etching, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: 1771Reference: 492391i- Books
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A dissertation on rivers and tides. Intended to demonstrate in general the effect of bridges, cuttings, removing of shoals and imbankments; and to investigate in particular the consequences of such works on the River Thames. By Robert Erskine, engineer, &c. Respectfully addressed and recommended to the consideration of the nobility, gentry, and public at large; particularly the proprietors of lands on the banks of the Thames, between Cricklade and Gravesend, with a view to the amendment of the ruinous condition of the navigation, the putting a stop to the intended lockwork between staines and London, and the usurpation of city power, in imbanking and raising paths on the side of the river, where they never were before.
Erskine, Robert, 1735-1780.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Le petit Neptune François: or, The French coasting pilot. Being a particular description of the bays, roads, rocks, sands, land-marks, depths of water, bearings, and distances from place to place; and the setting and flowing of the tides, on the coast of France. With tables of the latitude, longitude, and tides. Translated from the Petit flambeau de la mer of Du Bocage. With improvements from the Nepture Franȯis, Bellin, Belidor, &c. In which the courses and distances are ascertained, from the astronomical observations of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Illustrated with seventy views of the different appearances of land; and thirty new charts. Drawn from the large map of France taken by triangles by M. Cassini de Thury; the Neptune Franȯis; the charts of Bellins, Michelot, and Bremond; and all the particular surveys of the several parts of the coast of France. Engraved by the Late Thomas Jefferys.
Du Bocage, Georges Boissaye, 1626-1696.Date: 1774- Books
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A dissertation on rivers and tides. Intended to demonstrate in general the effect of bridges, cuttings, removing of shoals and imbankments; and to investigate in particular the consequences of such works on the river Thames Respectfully Addressed to the Right Honourable William Beckford, Esq; Lord Mayor of London, Conservator of the River Thames. By Robert Erskine, engineer, &c.
Erskine, Robert, 1735-1780.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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A tide table shewing the (solar) times of high water, and also the heights of the tides, at the Custom-House dock-gates, Liverpool; for the year 1781. ... Published by order of the Worshipful the Mayor, ... of Liverpool. Calculated by the Rev. Mr. G. Holden, and his son, ... [To be continued yearly.]
Holden, G. (George), -1793.Date: [1781]- Books
Atmospheric radioactivity and fallout research.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Biology and Medicine.Date: 1961- Books
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Tide-waiting, A poem: humbly inscribed to the Hon. Joseph Lysaght, Esq; collector of the port of Cork: by the Author, A tide-waiter, at Cove.
Tide-waiter, at Cove.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Pictures
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An artist seated on a rock at the sea shore and oblivious to the rising tide. Engraving by H. Rolls, 1835, after R.W. Buss.
Buss, Robert William, 1804-1875.Date: 4 April 1835Reference: 33179i- Books
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The natural history of Cornwall. The air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides ... Of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, plays or interludes, exercises, and festivals; the Cornish language, trade, tenures, and arts ... / By William Borlase.
Borlase, William, 1695-1772.Date: 1758- Pictures
Two women on a beach are so engrossed in their books that they fail to notice that the tide has come in and the sea is all around them. Wood engraving.
Reference: 35265i- Books
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The study of astronomy, adapted to the capacities of youth: in twelve familiar dialogues, between a tutor and his pupil: explaining the general phænomena of the heavenly bodies, the theory of the tides, &c. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. By John Stedman.
Stedman, John, teacher of astronomy.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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The study of astronomy, adapted to the capacities of youth: in twelve familiar dialogues, between a tutor and his pupil: explaining the general phænomena of the heavenly bodies, the theory of the tides, &c. illustrated with copper-plates. By John Stedman.
Stedman, John, teacher of astronomy.Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- Books
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The real nature of the electric fluid : explained and illustrated by numerous facts, and a cause assigned for the polarity of the magnet : to which is annexed a theory of the tides and currents of the ocean / by James Glenn.
Glenn, James, active 19th century.Date: 1844- Books
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The price of a victory, or, an exposition of the direful effects of war, a piece well deserving the perusal of all ranks of people, particularly at a crisis, when it is too much the fashion "todrench the earth with tides of human gore."
Date: Printed in the Year. 1795- Books
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Answers for poor Alexander Mackenzie tide-waiter at Strontian, to the petition of Colin and Florence Mackenzies.
Mackenzie, Alexander, tide-waiter at Strontian.Date: 1761]- Books
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An act for authorizing and enabling John Woods, William Woods, and John Challen, Merchants, to erect and build one or more Tide Mill or Tide Mills for grinding Corn and Grain, upon a Creek or Channel in the Manor and Parish of Bishopston, in the County of Sussex.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1762]- Pictures
Hydraulics: two views of the effects of breakwaters on waves. Aquatint by Neeles.
Date: 1817Reference: 46890i- Books
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The natural history of Cornwall. The air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides; of the stones, semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the manner of mining; The Constitution of the Stannaries; Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead, and Gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, Rare Birds, Fishes, Shells, Reptiles, and Quadrupeds: of the inhabitants, Their Manners, Customs, Plays or Interludes, Exercises, and Festivals; the Cornish Language, Trade, Tenures, and Arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the country, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from Original Drawings taken on the Spot. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan, and Author of the Antiquities of Cornwall.
Borlase, William, 1695-1772.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Sailing directions for Bristol and St. George's channels, Shewing the rocks, shoals, sands, anchoring grounds, and stopping places; the times of high water on the full and change days of the moon; the rice, direction, and velocity of the streams of spring and neap tides. With every thing else requisite for navigating these coasts.
Date: 1799- Books
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The coasting pilot: From the harbour of Balbriggen, in the county of Dublin, to Tarrow-Hill, in the county of Wexford. Giving a particular account of bays, roads, harbours, rocks, banks, swashes, landmarks, the setting and flowing of the tides, &c. From an actual survey taken by Scale and Richards, land-surveyors and hydrographers.
Scale, Bernard.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Archives and manuscripts
"Turning the Tide"
Date: September-October 2003Reference: ART/LAB/E/7Part of: Papers of Langley Brown- Books
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The New-England diary, or, Almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1727. ... Applyed to the horizon of Boston, N.E. where the north pole is elevated equal to an angle of 42 gr. & 25 m. but may indifferently (tides excepted) serve all North America. By a native of New-England. [Six lines of verse]
Bowen, Nathan, 1698-1776.Date: 1727 [i.e., 1726]- Books
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Tulley, 1699 : an almanack for the year of our Lord, MDCXCIX, being third after leap-year, and from the creation 5648 : wherein is contained the lunations, courts, spring tides, planets, aspects and weather, the rising and setting of the sun ... calculated for and fitted to the meridian of Boston in New-England ... / by John Tulley.
Tulley, John, 1638-1701Date: 1699- Books
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The New-England diary, or, Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ, 1729. ... Fitted to the horizon of Boston the metropolis of New England, whose long. from London is 289 gr. and lat. north, 42 gr. 25 min. nearest, but may without sensible error (tides excepted) serve all the adjacent places from Newfoundland to Carolina. By a native of New England. [Six lines of verse]
Bowen, Nathan, 1698-1776.Date: 1729 [i.e., 1728]- Books
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A description of the coast, tides, and currents, in Button's Bay, and in the Welcome: being the north-west coast of Hudson's Bay, And in the Welcome: Being The North-West Coast of Hudson's Bay, from Churchill River, in 58° 56' North Latitude, to Wager River or Strait, in 65° 24', taken from Scrog's, Crow's, Napier's, and Smith's journals, made in the Years 1722, 1737, 1740, 1742, 1743, and 1744. Also from the discoveries made in 1742, in the Voyage in the Furnace Bomb, and Discovery Pink, commanded by Captain Middleton and Captain Moor; shewing from these Journals, a probability, that there is a passage from thence to the Western ocean of America.
Date: [1745?]