Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1918 — First Recorded Eclipse. [ARTICLE]

First Recorded Eclipse.

Th»-earllest eclftise certainly tden- ■ titled by means of contemporary records is believed to be that which occurred Babylon 1.070 years before the Christian era. The next notable cne was recorded at Nhieveh on Assyrian tablets 763 years B. C. Modem computations show that the path of the shadow* on that occasion ran at least 100 miles north of the city of Nlneyeh. Then comes the jnost celebrated of all, the “Eclipse of Thales,” so-called because that famous Greek philosopher predicted Its occurrence, and when it did occur, on_ the 28th of May, B. C., it put nn end to a great battle that was being fought bf the Medes and the Lydians, and permanently terminated, the war between them. ’ •