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Theophrastus on the ebb and flow of the tide, and of eddies, and on water. 835
452:835 : The Greek philosophers had no opportunity to study the phenomenon of the ebb and flow of the tide and none of them wrote about it. The movement of the waters in the Euripus however was to a few of them a puzzling problem.