Petavius

Historical Examples of petavius

• Here, they furrowed annular plateaus, such as Posidonius or Petavius.

  All Around the Moon

  Jules Verne

• The latter compute of the Greeks, as Petavius observeth, hath been reduced unto two or three accounts.

  The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 2 of 3)

  Thomas Browne

• The merits of Petavius as a chronologer have been differently appreciated.

  Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2

  Henry Hallam

• Usher, like Scaliger and Petavius, had strictly conformed to the Hebrew chronology in all scriptural dates.

  Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2

  Henry Hallam

• Petavius and Usher fix it on the 25th of December, five years before our era.

  Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions

  T. W. Doane