Definition of Saroses

1. saros [n] - See also: saros

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saroses

sarnies
sarns
sarod
sarode
sarodes
sarodist
sarodists
sarods
sarong party girl
sarong party girls
saronglike
sarongs
saronic
saros
saroses (current term)
sarpanch
sarpe
sarplar
sarplars
sarpo
sarracenia
sarracenias
sarrasin
sarrasins
sarrazin
sarrazins
sarrusophone
sarrusophones
sarsaparilla

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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