Half of the world\'s population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters.
Here is the epic story of the long search to understand the tide from Aristot.
In The Tide , celebrated Science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams weaves together centuries of scientific thinking with the literature and folklore the tide has inspired to explain the power and workings of this most remarkable force.
But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery to almost all of us.
Half of the world\'s population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters