📚 Tides

The moon’s pull made measurable: the theory since Newton, the range of the coasts, and the energy in the ebb.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject tides in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	Sir Isaac Newton	1687	104
	The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century	John Ruskin	1884	23
	Treatise on natural philosophy	William Thomson Kelvin	1867	16
	Astronomie	Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande	1764	10
	Barnaby/Seaside Little Book	Liz Lewis	2002	8
	Tide Tables 2004	NOAA	2003	8
	Tide Tables 2007	NOAA	2006	8
	Pioneers of science	Oliver Lodge	1893	6
	Waves and tides	R. C. H. Russell	1952	6
	Ebbe und Flut des Meeres, der Atmosphäre und der Erdfeste	Albert Defant	1953	6
	Seas and Oceans	Felicity Brooks	1993	6
	The ocean	William Leighton Jordan	1873	5
	Time and tide	Sir Robert Stawell Ball	1889	5
	The tides and kindred phenomena in the solar system	Sir George Howard Darwin	1898	5
	Tide levels and datum planes in Eastern Canada	W. Bell Dawson	1902	5
	Waves and tides	Robert Christopher Hamlyn Russell	1952	5
	The tides	Edward P. Clancy	1968	5
	Tidal-flow, circulation, and flushing characteristics of Kings Bay, Citrus County, Florida	K. M. Hammett	1996	5
	Hai chao shuo	Chun Zhou	1796	4
	Astronomical investigations	Henry F. A. Pratt	1865	4
	Bibliography on tidal hydraulics	United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Committee on Tidal Hydraulics.	1954	4
	Tidal friction and the earth's rotation II	P. Brosche	1982	4
	Tide Tables 2002	United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.	2001	4
	Ebb and Flow	Tom Koppel	2007	4
	Tidal rivers	William H. Wheeler	1893	3
	Leçons sur la théorie des marées	Maurice Lévy	1898	3
	Manual of tides ...	Rollin Arthur Harris	1898	3
	Waves of the sea and other water waves	Cornish, Vaughan	1910	3
	Manual of tide observations	U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.	1935	3
	Tides	Donald Henry Macmillan	1966	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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