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Paper, 'On the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames' by G B [George Biddell] Airy

Reference number: PT/26/1

Date: 25 June 1841

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Subject: Hydrography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames'.

Written by Airy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Received by the Royal Society on 3 July 1841. Read 25 November 1841.

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 4, 1843.

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PT/26/1
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25 June 1841
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Ink on paper
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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George Biddell Airy

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George Biddell Airy, Paper, 'On the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames' by G B [George Biddell] Airy, 25 June 1841, PT/26/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_26_1/paper-on-the-laws-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-tide-in-the-river-thames-by-g-b-george-biddell-airy, accessed on 13 March 2026

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