Anomalies of the tides
Mathematical Physics
2007-05-23 v2 History and Overview
math.MP
Abstract
Unusual features of water waves that Galileo described in a letter to Cardinal Orsini in 1616 are revisited from the perspectives of singular optics and geometric analysis.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/0312047,
title = {Anomalies of the tides},
author = {Thomas H. Otway},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0312047},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
tcilatex, 38 pages. To appear in the collection "Galileo and the Cultural Universe of the Renaissance," edited by G. Cwilich and F. Felsenstein