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THE NINEVEH SOLAR ECLIPSE OF B.C. 763.—In the Rev. A. H. Sayce's notice of the discoveries of the late Mr. George Smith amongst the Assyrian inscriptions in the British Museum (NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 421), reference is irade to a solar eclipse in the month Sivan, which has been fixed to the year B. C. 763, June 15 (not in May as printed in the notice quoted). The following are elements of this important eclipse—which has so direct a bearing upon the Assyrian chronology of the period—deduced upon the same system of calculation adopted for other ancient eclipses previously alluded to in this column:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 15, 65 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015065a0
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