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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Example Sentences

Additional Patristic texts of like tenor in Petavius, De Trinitate, l.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

The learned Petavius, and even the Prince de Condé, did not disdain to mingle in the combat. 

From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Petavius, Maldonatus, Cercià, Oswald, and others censure this view.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

Dodwell says that he obtained them from his friend Hadrian Beoerland, who got them from Isaac Vossius, by whom they were copied from certain MSS. in the possession of Petavius.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various

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

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward