Chapter 5, page 2
5.2 5.1 The cause of the ocean tides.
5.2 The tide spatioles.
5.3 The tide basins.
5.4 The tide mechanism.
5.5 The times of the ocean tides.
5.6 The range of a tide basin.
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#07 -The tide spatioles.
.1 The configurational reactions which cause the water molecules to decrease their density, could take place everywhere, at the same time.
.2 However, they would be more likely and emphasised, in areas called spatioles - from the latin word spatiolum, defined here as a small mobile space - where, at given moments, the “action d”, induced by the movements, at discrete values, of the two generating heavenly bodies, is focused the better.
Number of the spatioles.
.3 For each basin, there is one spatiole due to the Moon, and one spatiole due to the Sun.
.4 The stronger spatiole is due to the Moon, because the effect of the “action d” decreases in proportion to the distance from the generating mass, raised to the 3rd power.
Cadence of the spatioles.
.5 Within each tide basin, the passage of a spatiole - a short period during which the action of the generating body, because of its position, is best focused - affects different sections of it, at different hours of each cycle, at turn.
.6 Each spatiole may pass once a day, giving rise to a diurnal basin. If it passes two times a day, it gives rise to a semi-diurnal basin.
On the cadence of the tide spatioles, one would possibly like to read again the page 4.11.
Direction of the spatioles.
.7 The tide spatioles, sort of strips, would revolve counter-clockwise, if in the northern magnetic hemisphere, around the centre of each tide basin, the amphidromic point, affecting at turn different sections of it, at different hours of the cycle.
.8 It is the variation of the water density, in different section of each basin, at different hours of a cycle, at turn, that would be the main cause of the ocean tides.
A “spatiole” due to the Moon as it would appear in superimposed virtual photos, shot every around 68 mns, as it revolves counterclockwise [instance of a semi-diurnal tide basin in the northern hemisphère].
The times of the passages of the spatioles.
.9 Below, the provisional graph with the approximate average time of the passage of the centre of a spatiole (of the Moon, or of the Sun) valid for the lagoon of Venice (locality near the base line centre-pole; and on a semi-diurnal tide basin).
.10 The bar line on the graph represents the passage of the celestial body (Moon, or Sun) either above the local meridian (curve A), or above the opposite one (B).
.11 The variation of the times of the passage of the centre of the spatiole is function of the declination of the considered celestial body (-60/+60 mns), when it is above (curve A, squares), or, as in this semi-diurnal basin, also when it is on the opposite side (curve B, rhombs).

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