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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 See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy and See also:

CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology, a remarkable See also:

period of 18 years and ro or 11 days, at the end of which every See also:

ECLIPSE (Gr. €uheo,tis, falling out of place, failing)

eclipse of the See also:

sun or See also:

moon recurs with little See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change as regards the See also:

time and the See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the eclipse. It is supposed to have afforded in See also:

ancient times the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal method of predicting eclipses (see ECLIPSE).

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