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Blurb: “Edward Clancy explains what man knows about one of the most exciting dynamic phenomena in nature-from Isaac Newton's law of gravity to today's computerized predictions of tidal phenomena.
Dr. Clancy writes: "I have tried to tell, with a minimum of technical lan-guage, what makes the tides, how we see them here and there in the world, how they complicate the life of the sailor, how men are harnessing them to generate power, and how they affect the future of the earth and of the moon."
Edward P. Clancy is Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Physics Department at
Mount Holyoke College. He received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. During World War II, he was a staff member of the Harvard
Underwater Sound Laboratory, where he was able to combine his lifelong love of the sea with a scientific study of some of its physical characteristics.