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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 221 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAROS  , in Babylonian numeration, the number 3600, i.e . 6o times 6o . In

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astronomy and
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chronology, a remarkable
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period of 18 years and ro or 11 days, at the end of which every
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eclipse of the
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sun or
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moon recurs with little
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change as regards the
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time and the
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character of the eclipse . It is supposed to have afforded in
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ancient times the
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principal method of predicting eclipses (see ECLIPSE) .

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