Lexicographical Neighbors of Saroses
Literary usage of Saroses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Mankind: Their Origin and Destiny by Arthur Dyot Thomson (1872)
"... contains 120 saroses, or periods of 3600 years each, in the 432000 years. ...
or small portions, as 120 saroses of 3600 years each give the great ..."
2. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"As these figures, according to ancient writers, were based by Berosus on the 120
saroses—each of the divisions meaning six ..."
3. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"Therefore has Dr. Sepp, of Mun- Suidas," who affirmed that the 120 saroses ich,
undertaken to support Kepler and Wil- made 2222 sacerdotal and cyclic years, ..."
4. The Story of Eclipses by George Frederick Chambers (1902)
"combination of 48 saroses, making 865 years for the Moon ; and of about 70 saroses,
or more than 1200 years for the Sun. These considerations are leading us ..."
5. Egypt's Record of Time to the Exodus of Israel, Critically Investigated by William Brown Galloway (1869)
"... to resolve some altogether foreign periods of vast extent, by treating the
years of the supposed Chaldean saroses as having been only literal days; ..."
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