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IT is now recognised that the tides are necessarily lengthening the day; but the history of this recognition seems to be incomplete. “It appears,” says Mr. Tait in his “Thermodynamics,” p. 86, “that the first suggestion of such an effect is due to Kant.” Mr. Stewart speaks more positively (“On Heat,” p. 356), but adds that Mayer “was the first to give his conclusions general publicity.”
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MONRO, C. Kant on the Retarded Rotation of Planets and Satellites. Nature 7, 241–242 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007241c0
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