Paper, regarding an account of the current of the tides around Orcades [Orkney Islands] by Robert Moray
Reference number: CLP/6/32
Date: 1672
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Moray describes how 'in Fairay-Sound (between the Isles of Fairay and Ætha in Orkney) the sea runs north-east, for the space only of three hours in flowing, and nine hours south-west in ebbing'.
Subject: Oceanography
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the current of the tydes about the orcades, given in by a gentleman of Scotland, who had pass'd himself that way, and from him communicated to the Publisher by the truly Honourable Sir Robert Moray Knight, deceased, lately one of the Vice-Presidents of the R. Society, of which he had been President formerly; whose death is no less deservedly than exceedingly lamented by all that knew his worth, knowledge, integrity, prudence, and courage'
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- 1672
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- 2 pages
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An account of the current of the tydes about the orcades, given in by a gentleman of Scotland, who had pass'd himself that way, and from him communicated to the Publisher by the truly Honourable Sir Robert Moray Knight, deceased, lately one of the Vice-Presidents of the R. Society, of which he had been President formerly; whose death is no less deservedly than exceedingly lamented by all that knew his worth, knowledge, integrity, prudence, and courage External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Robert Moray
Date: 17th November 1673
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1673.0048
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Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'
1661-1735 Reference number: CLP/6
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