An exact survey of the tide : explicating its production and propagation, variety and anomaly, in all parts of the world, especially near the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, with a preliminary treatise concerning the origin of springs, generation of rain, and production of wind,with twelve curious maps

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Edward Barlow, educated at the English College of Lisbon and working as a priest in Lancashire, is best known as the inventor of a repeating clock. His mechanical bent may be seen in the "Conclusion" of this volume, where he refers to the oceans being like a pendulum having a "ponderous as well as voluble element." There is much American information in the book: four of the 12 maps are of American interest, and there are discussions of the tides in Hudson's Bay and currents off Brazil.