Note 862 — Chapter VIII · THE WATERS
Reading edition
In this connection it is interesting to note that the Chinese in antiquity and during the Middle Ages had developed an understanding of the tides “in advance of anything that seems to have been known at that time in Europe” (A. C. Moule, The Bore on the Ch’ien-T’ang River in China, in: T’oung Pao, ou archives concernant l’histoire, les langues, la géographie, et l’ethnographie de l’Asie orientale, vol. xxii, Leiden, 1923, pp. 135–188, reference on p. 173).