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The geographical lore of the time of the Crusades

Note 108 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

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Probably the best work on ancient and medieval tide theories is Almagià, Dottrina, 1905. See also Duhem, Système, vol. ii, 1914, pp. 267–390. On the earliest Greek observations of the tides in the Mediterranean see Giorgio Pasquali, Ἄμπωτις und die ältesten Beobachtungen der Gezeiten im Mittelmeer, in: Festschrift für Wackernagel, Göttingen, 1924, pp. 326–332 (not seen, title from review in: Rivista geografica italiana, voi. xxxi, Florence, 1924, pp. 86–88).

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