Petavius

American  

[pi-tah-vee-uhs] / pɪˈtɑ vi əs /

noun

1. a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.

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Petavius

In early life he had picked up chance copies of Baronius and Petavius, the pillars of historic theology; but the motives of his choice lay deeper.

From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton

Great, undoubtedly, must have been the learning and perspicuity of a Petavius, Perizonius, Scaliger, Grotius, and Le Clerc; also of an Usher, Pearson, Marsham, and Newton.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

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

Petavius, shows that spiritual jurisdiction springs from the direct gift of Christ, 107.

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Thomas W. Allies

I should have liked to have shown them the splendid double-walled plain called Petavius, which has a convex floor some 800 feet higher in the centre than at the edges.

From To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks