Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical Texts: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 81, Part 6)

by J.A. Henderson and A. Aaboe

These texts are probably from Babylon, although their exact provenance is unknown. All concern luni-solar phenomena with the exception of a text on the last visibility of Mercury, which is found on one side of a tablet whose other side deals with lunar eclipse magnitudes & longitudes. The texts fall into 2 groups. One comprises "Saros Cycle Texts," which give the months of eclipse possibilities arranged in consistent cycles of 223 mo. (or 18 years)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698161
• ISBN13: 9780871698162
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 75 Pages