Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Ancients Knew About Eclipses. [ARTICLE]

Ancients Knew About Eclipses.

The ancients found out hew to predict eclipses of the moon, but those of the sun baffled' them. They observed the lunar cycle of 18 Julian yean 11 days, in which the moon returns to almost the same position In the heavens, but they could not apply this to solar eclipses, although the period answers for both. The reason of the eclipses recur in a fixed order within the cycle, they are not visible again at the part dNthe earth's sur-