Petavius
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The great ring mountains or ringed plains, Langrenus, Vendelinus, Petavius, and Furnerius, all lying significantly along the same lunar meridian, have already been noticed.
From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett Putman
That the term originally related to fire we have the authority of Petavius.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob
Additional Patristic texts of like tenor in Petavius, De Trinitate, l.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
The fragment was first published in 1567, then in the Uranologion of Petavius, with a Latin translation, 1630.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
According to Petavius, the general belief of Catholics at a given time is the work of God, and of higher authority than all antiquity and all the Fathers.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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