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Traité des causes naturelles du flux, et du reflex de la mer.

Scalberge Miniere · 1680 · A Chartres, : chez Claude Peigne & Estienne Massot. Imprimeurs. · 15 pictures

A 1680 French treatise on the natural causes of the tides, printed at Chartres by Claude Peigne and Estienne Massot and held by the John Carter Brown Library, written for readers of natural philosophy. Its pictures are geometric diagrams of concentric circles, orbits, and sun-and-moon sightlines drawn in heavy black ink with hatched rings and lettered points, offering a designer clean schematic structures built from nested rings and dashed radiating lines.

Tides

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