It was therefore surprising when, in 1877, Simon Newcomb found, by a study of the lunar eclipses handed down by Ptolemy and those observed by the Arabians - data much more reliable than the vague accounts of ancient solar eclipses - that the actual apparent acceleration was only about 8.3.
solar eclipses הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד