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Paper, 'Some observations on the peculiarity of the tides between Fairleigh [Fairlight] and the North Foreland; with an explanation of the supposed meeting of the tides near Dungeness' by James Anderson

Reference number: PT/13/17

Date: 06 February 1819

Description

Relates to tides between Fairleigh [Fairlight, East Sussex] and North Foreland, and the place where they meet at Dungeness [Kent].

Subject: Oceanography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations on the peculiarity of the tides between Fairleigh and the North Foreland; with an explanation of the supposed meeting of the tides near Dungeness'.

Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Written by Anderson at 36 Hans Place, London. Read 25 March 1819.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

Reference number
PT/13/17
Earliest possible date
06 February 1819
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Ink on paper
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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James Anderson

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James Anderson, Paper, 'Some observations on the peculiarity of the tides between Fairleigh [Fairlight] and the North Foreland; with an explanation of the supposed meeting of the tides near Dungeness' by James Anderson, 06 February 1819, PT/13/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_17/paper-some-observations-on-the-peculiarity-of-the-tides-between-fairleigh-fairlight-and-the-north-foreland-with-an-explanation-of-the-supposed-meeting-of-the-tides-near-dungeness-by-james-anderson, accessed on 07 November 2025

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