Abstract
ONE of the crowning features of the enunciation by Newton of the law of universal gravitation consisted in the fact that herein the phenomena ot the tides and their relationship with the moon could for the first time be. coordinated with other wellknown phenomena of the solar system. Though the principal phenomena of rise and fall and ebb and flood of the sea must have been recognised by coast dwellers and navigators from the earliest times, the theory of the tides as it exists to-day may fairly be said to have originated with Newton, and its purpose has largely been to examine to what extent these phenomena are attributable solely to a gravitational cause or how far it may be necessary to invoke some other exciting or controlling influence.
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