Le Gentil's criticism of Halley's use of the term "Saros" appeared in two places in the 1756 volume of Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, avec les mémoires de mathématique et de physique:
in the Histoire section: (Staff) (1756). "Sur le Saros Chaldaïque" [On the Chaldean Saros]. Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, avec les mémoires de mathématique et de physique (in French): 80–90.
Halley, E. (1686). "Emendationes & Notae in tria loca vitiose edita in textu vulgato Naturalis Historiae C. Plinii" [Corrections and notes on three badly edited passages in a common edition of C. Pliny's Natural History]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (in Latin). 17 (194): 535–540. doi:10.1098/rstl.1686.0101. S2CID186208699. From p. 537: "Secundo loco annotare libet hanc Periodum Chaldaeis olim Astronomiae repertoribus Saron dici, … " (In the second passage, it is pleasing to note [that] this period was called "Saron" by Chaldean authors of astronomy, … ) " … Sari mensura & numerus apud Chaldaeos, etenim 120 Sari constituunt annos 2222 juxta Chaldaeorum calculum, nempe Saros constat ex 222 mensibus Lunaribus, qui sunt 18 Anni cum sex mensibus." ( … the Sari [was] a measure and number in the writings of the Chaldeans, as a matter of fact 120 Sari constitute 2,222 years according to the Chaldeans' calculation; indeed a Saros consists of 222 lunar months, which are 18 years and 6 months.)
Halley, E. (1686). "Emendationes & Notae in tria loca vitiose edita in textu vulgato Naturalis Historiae C. Plinii" [Corrections and notes on three badly edited passages in a common edition of C. Pliny's Natural History]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (in Latin). 17 (194): 535–540. doi:10.1098/rstl.1686.0101. S2CID186208699. From p. 537: "Secundo loco annotare libet hanc Periodum Chaldaeis olim Astronomiae repertoribus Saron dici, … " (In the second passage, it is pleasing to note [that] this period was called "Saron" by Chaldean authors of astronomy, … ) " … Sari mensura & numerus apud Chaldaeos, etenim 120 Sari constituunt annos 2222 juxta Chaldaeorum calculum, nempe Saros constat ex 222 mensibus Lunaribus, qui sunt 18 Anni cum sex mensibus." ( … the Sari [was] a measure and number in the writings of the Chaldeans, as a matter of fact 120 Sari constitute 2,222 years according to the Chaldeans' calculation; indeed a Saros consists of 222 lunar months, which are 18 years and 6 months.)
Halley, E. (1686). "Emendationes & Notae in tria loca vitiose edita in textu vulgato Naturalis Historiae C. Plinii" [Corrections and notes on three badly edited passages in a common edition of C. Pliny's Natural History]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (in Latin). 17 (194): 535–540. doi:10.1098/rstl.1686.0101. S2CID186208699. From p. 537: "Secundo loco annotare libet hanc Periodum Chaldaeis olim Astronomiae repertoribus Saron dici, … " (In the second passage, it is pleasing to note [that] this period was called "Saron" by Chaldean authors of astronomy, … ) " … Sari mensura & numerus apud Chaldaeos, etenim 120 Sari constituunt annos 2222 juxta Chaldaeorum calculum, nempe Saros constat ex 222 mensibus Lunaribus, qui sunt 18 Anni cum sex mensibus." ( … the Sari [was] a measure and number in the writings of the Chaldeans, as a matter of fact 120 Sari constitute 2,222 years according to the Chaldeans' calculation; indeed a Saros consists of 222 lunar months, which are 18 years and 6 months.)
