Complex sentence: The Babylonian name "Saros" appears to have referred to a period of 3600 years, and this name was first given to the eclipse cycle by Edmund Halley in 1691, who took it from the "Suda", a Byzantine lexicon of the 11th century.
Split into simpler sentences: The Babylonian name "Saros" appears to have referred to a period of 3600 years. This name was first given to the eclipse cycle by Edmund Halley in 1691, who took it from the "Suda", a Byzantine lexicon of the 11th century.