, in Chronology, a period of 223 lunar months. The etymology of the word is said to be Chaldean, signifying restitution, or return of eclipses; that is, conjunctions of the sun and moon in nearly the same place of the ecliptic. The Saros was a cycle like to that of Meto.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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