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Title: Time and Tide
A Romance of the Moon

Author: Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

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The Romance of Science.

TIME AND TIDE,

A Romance of the Moon.

Being Two Lectures Delivered
in the Theatre of the London Institution,
on the Afternoons of November 19 and 26, 1888.

by

SIR ROBERT S. BALL, LL.D., F.R.S.,
Royal Astronomer of Ireland.

Published under the Direction of the Committee of
General Literature and Education Appointed
by the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge.

London:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,
Northumberland Avenue, W.C.; 43, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.
Brighton: 135, North Street.
New York: E. & J. B. Young & Co.

[Illustration: VIEW OF THE MOON TWO DAYS AFTER FIRST QUARTER. From a
photograph by Mr. LEWIS M. RUTHERFORD.

_Frontispiece._]

TO
The Members of the London Institution
I DEDICATE
THIS LITTLE BOOK.

PREFACE.

Having been honoured once again with a request that I should lecture
before the London Institution, I chose for my subject the Theory of
Tidal Evolution. The kind reception which these lectures received has
led to their publication in the present volume. I have taken the
opportunity to supplement the lectures as actually delivered by the
insertion of some additional matter. I am indebted to my friends Mr.
Close and Mr. Rambaut for their kindness in read