In the progress of these lectures I have sought to interest you in those profound investigations which the modern mathematician has made in his efforts to explore the secrets of nature. He has felt that the laws of motion, as we understand them, are bounded by no considerations of space, are limited by no duration of time, and he has commenced to speculate on the logical consequences of those laws when time of indefinite duration is assumed to be at his disposal. From the very nature of the case, observations for confirmation were impossible. Phenomena that required millions of years for their development cannot be submitted to the instruments in our observatories. But this is perhaps one of the special reasons which make such investigations of peculiar interest, and entitle us to speak of the revelations of Time and Tide as a romance of modern science.
INDEX.
- Aberdeen, tides at, [23]
- Action and reaction, [69]
- Adams, discoverer of Neptune, [186]
- Admiralty Manual of Scientific Inquiry, [30], [31], [34]
- Admiralty tide tables, [29]
- Africa, Krakatoa dust over, [84]
- Analysis, harmonic, of tides, [34]
- Analysis of tide into its constituents, [33]
- Ancient tides on moon, [136]
- Annus Magnus of solar system, [72]
- Areas, conservation of, [61]
- Arklow, tides at, [23]
- Ascension, tides at, [24]
- Astronomical chronology, [147]
- Atlantic, Krakatoa dust over, [84]
- Atlantic, tides in, [38]
- Atmosphere, tides in, [40]
- Avon, tides in, at Bristol, [39]
- Ball-room, illustration, [62]
- Barometric records of Krakatoa airwave, [82]
- Batavia, Krakatoa heard at, [83]
- Bath, hot waters at, [89]
- Bay of Fundy, [39]
- Beds of rock, how formed, [149]
- Birmingham, lecture at, [148]
- Birth of moon, [118]
- Blast iron furnace, [87]
- Blue sun produced by Krakatoa, [84]
- Bodily tides of moon, [131]
- Brake illustrating friction, [68]
- Brickwork as a non-conductor, [87]
- Bristol Channel, [39]
- Bucket of water, oscillations in, [98]
- Cambrian rocks, [153]
- Cannon-ball, energy of, [51]
- Cardiff, tides at, [39]
- Caspian Sea, tides in, [38]
- Casting, cooling of, [79]
- Celebes, Krakatoa heard at, [83]
- Central America, [86]
- Change and full, tides at, [22]
- Chemical action in earth, [81]
- Chepstow, tides at, [39]
- Chronology, the two systems of, [147]
- Clifton, tides in Avon at, [39]
- Clock, illustration of, [49]
- Coal, [11]
- Coincidence of moon's rotation and revolution, [134]
- Combustion, heat of, [92]
- Cones, volume of, [151]
- Conservation of spin or areas, [64]
- Constituent tides, [35]
- Consumption of energy by tides, [48]
- Cooling, laws of, [79]
- Cooling of earth from primitive heat, [87]
- Crane, brakes on, [69]
- Craters of moon, [94]
- Critical epoch in earth's history, [75]
- Darwin, [12]
- Darwin, G. H., in Admiralty Manual, [34]
- Darwin, G. H., on tidal evolution, [97], [118], [122], [151], [185]
- Day and month equal, [107]
- Day at present increasing, [68]
- Day of 1400 hours, [121]
- Day of 3 or 4 hours, [75]
- Decline of earth's heat, [90]
- Diagram showing why moon recedes, [70]
- Diego Garcia, Krakatoa heard at, [83]
- Difficulties of tidal evolution, [48]
- Dives and Lazarus, [161]
- Dust clouds, [84]
- Dynamical principle, [65]
- Dynamical stability, [110]
- Earth and moon as rigid body, [107]
- Earth a fly-wheel, [57]
- Earth, fusion of, [12]
- Earth, heat of, [80]
- Earth in highly heated early state, [92]
- Earth's crust, Lyell on, [12]
- Earth's history, [12]
- Earth-moon system originally, [107]
- Earthquakes, [80]
- Eccentricity of moon's path explained, [184]
- Ecliptic, obliquity of, explained, [184]
- Economic aspects of tides, [45]
- Egg on end, [108]
- Elliptic orbit of moon, [113]
- Endowment of moment of momentum, [167]
- Energy for tides, whence, [67]
- Energy lost by tides, [60]
- Energy of moon's position, [50]
- Energy of motion, [51]
- Energy of separation, [50]
- Energy, sources of, [49]
- Equality of day and month, [122]
- Equilibrium, stable and unstable, [108]
- Equinoxes, precession of, [72]
- Eruption of volcanoes, [80]
- Establishment, [30]
- Estuary, tides in, [152]
- Explosion of Krakatoa, [83]
- Extinct season, moon, [129]
- Fiji, [24]
- Fishes, periods of fossil, [12]
- Fitzgerald, Prof., on Hertz' experiments, [101]
- Floating log, [109]
- Fortnightly tide, [34]
- Friction brake, [69]
- Friction, tidal, [40], [47]
- Full and change, tides during, [22]
- Fundy, Bay of, tides in, [39]
- Gauge for tides, [31]
- Geological chronology, [146]
- Geology and tides, [144]
- Geometric series, [92]
- Geysers, [85]
- Gibraltar, Straits of, tides in, [38]
- Glimpse through the corridors of time, [148]
- Glorious sunsets from Krakatoa, [85]
- Greatest length of day, [121]
- Greatest length of month, [122]
- Greatest tides, [39]
- Green moons from Krakatoa dust, [84]
- Greenock, tides at, [22]
- Grindstone, rupture of, [76]
- Gunpowder, energy from, [51]
- Hall, Prof. A., discovers satellites of Mars, [142]
- Harmonic analyzer, [35]
- Heated body, cooling of, [79]
- Height of tide, how to measure, [29]
- Helmholtz explains the constant face of the moon, [136]
- Hertz, undulations of ether, [101]
- High water, is it under the moon? [21]
- High water, simple rules for, [26]
- High water twice a day, [18]
- Hot springs, [85]
- Hot waters of Bath, [89]
- Hour of high water, how found, [26]
- Howth, [25]
- Hull, tides at, [23]
- Ichthyosaurus, [148]
- Impulse, effect of timed, [101]
- Incandescence of earth's interior, [85]
- Incandescence of moon, [94]
- Indian ocean, [84]
- Initial condition of earth and moon, [76]
- Instability, dynamical, [110]
- Interval, luni-tidal, [30]
- Iron, machine for punching, [55]
- Iron smelting, [87]
- Java, [82]
- Jupiter, [141], [156]
- Kepler's Law, [53], [114]
- Kerguelen Island, [24]
- Kingstown, [21]
- Krakatoa, [58]
- Lagrange, [186]
- Language, origin of, [12]
- Laplace, [186]
- Laurentian rocks, [148]
- Law of tides, [15]
- Lazarus and Dives, [161]
- Leakage of heat, [86]
- Length of day increasing, [68]
- Leverrier discovers Neptune, [186]
- London, tides at, [23], [27]
- Lunar and solar tides compared, [15]
- Lunar diurnal tide, [34]
- Luni-tidal interval, [30]
- Lyell, [12]
- Macassar, explosion of Krakatoa heard at, [83]
- Machine for analyzing tides, [35]
- Machine for predicting tides, [35]
- Machine for observing tides, [32]
- Malahide estuary, [152]
- Mars, moons of, [142]
- Mass of moon found from tides, [16]
- Max Müller, [12]
- Maximum and minimum, [104]
- Mediterranean, tides in, [38]
- Meridian position of moon at high water, [26]
- Mills, tidal, [43]
- Mines, heat in, [86]
- Moment of momentum, how estimated, [170]
- Month equals day, [122]
- Month of 1400 hours, [122]
- Month with greatest number of days, [118]
- Moon and tides connected, [13]
- Moon, constant face of, [136]
- Moon-energy, [54]
- Moon, volcanic activity on, [94]
- Moons of Mars, [142]
- Motion, perpetual, [48]
- Nautical almanac, [26]
- Neap tides, [16]
- Needles, tides at, [23]
- Niagara, utilization of, [47]
- Noise from Krakatoa, [83]
- Numerical data of tidal evolution, [127]
- Obliquity of ecliptic and tides, [184]
- Observations of tides, [29]
- Ocean tides, [38]
- Orbit of earth, changes in, [72]
- Orbit of moon explained by tides, [184]
- Origin of moon, [100]
- Oscillations of water, [98]
- Pacific, [84]
- Paradox of geometric series, [92]
- Pendulum, motion of, [49]
- Periodic phenomena, [71]
- Periods of rotation and revolution of moon equal, [43]
- Periods of tides, [34]
- Perpetual motion, [48]
- Planets and tides, [155]
- Precession of equinoxes, [72]
- Prediction of tides, [35]
- Principal tides, [33]
- Punching-engine, [55]
- Purser, Professor, [61]
- Railway brakes, [68]
- Reaction and action, [69]
- Relative rotation, [104]
- Relative tides on earth and moon, [131]
- Reptiles, fossil, [11]
- Retreat of moon explained, [69]
- Retrospect of moon's history, [77]
- Rhine, mills on, [43]
- Ring theory of moon's origin, [96]
- Rivers, [149]
- Rocks, formation of, [150]
- Rodriguez, Krakatoa heard at, [83]
- Rolling mills, [56]
- Rotation of moon on its axis, [133]
- Rupture of earth, [76]
- Rupture of grindstone, [75]
- St. Helena, tides at, [38]
- Santa Cruz, [24]
- Satellites of Jupiter, [135]
- Saturn, [141]
- Seasons, [72]
- Seas, so called, on moon, [129]
- Secondary ages, [11]
- Sligo, tides at, [23]
- Small tides, [38]
- Smelting of iron, [87]
- Solar and lunar tides compared, [15]
- Solar system, [155]
- Solar tides, [14]
- Solar tides, ultimate importance of, [139]
- Sounds from Krakatoa, [83]
- Source of tidal energy, [67]
- Spring tides, [16]
- Stability, dynamical, [110]
- Stable equilibrium, [108]
- Stages of special importance, [117]
- Stalactites, [73]
- Steam engine and tides compared, [45]
- Strata, formation of, aided by tides, [154]
- Sumatra, [82]
- Sun, rotation of, [134]
- Sunbeams stored, [11]
- Sunda, [82]
- Sunsets, Krakatoa, [85]
- Table of luni-tidal corrections, [30]
- Telescope at Washington, [143]
- Temperature of space, [91]
- Tertiary ages, [11]
- Thames, tides in, [125]
- Thomson, Sir W., [36], [44]
- Tidal currents used in making rocks, [153]
- Tidal efficiency, how estimated, [14]
- Tidal evolution, to whom due, [97]
- Tide gauge, [31]
- Tide mills, [44]
- Tide predicting engine, [36]
- Tides and geology, [144]
- Tides at London bridge, [28]
- Tides, change and full, [22]
- Tides, commercial value of, [47]
- Tides, due to moon, [13]
- Tides, how to observe, [29]
- Tides in Jupiter, [138]
- Tides in moon, [128]
- Tides, small, [38]
- Tides, solar and lunar compared, [15]
- Tides varying inversely as cube of distance, [15]
- Time and tide, [12]
- Timor, Krakatoa heard at, [83]
- Tralee, tides at, [23]
- Tyndall, [73]
- Tynemouth, [23]
- Undulations of a fluid globe, [99]
- Undulations of air from Krakatoa, [82]
- Unintermitting phenomena, [71]
- Unstable equilibrium, [108]
- Uranus, [142]
- Vast tides, [39]
- Volcanoes, [80]
- Voyage of Krakatoa dust, [84]
- Washington reflector, [142]
- Water absent from moon, [129]
- Water-wheels under London bridge, [43]
- Waves of air from Krakatoa, [82]
- Whewell on tides, [30]
- Work done by tides, [42], [47]
- Work of tides, [42]
- Yarmouth, tides at, [23]
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