"In 1740, he... shared the prize of the... [Royal] Academy with ... D. Bernoulli and Euler, for resolving the problem relating to the motion of the tides from the theory of gravity... He bad only ten days to draw up this paper in, and could not... transcribe a fair copy; so ... the Paris edition... is incorrect. He afterwards revised the whole, and inserted it in his Treatise of Fluxions."