TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joly,Bernard
TI  - Stoic Influences on Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Theories of Tides
PY  - 2008///.
							
N1  - 62
N2  - The explanation of tides remained a significant theoretical challenge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whether to fill a gap in Aristotelian physics or to contribute further arguments to the debate on the new world system. One thesis frequently put forward was that tides are the effect of a submarine breathing of the Earth, which can be compared to a chemical explanation for the formation of spirits that cause the waters to rise. Stoic physics provides key elements for this model
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-histoire-des-sciences-2008-2-page-287?lang=en
ER  -