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    Denis Pétau (21 August 1583 – 11 December 1652), also known as Dionysius Petavius, was a French Jesuit theologian. Pétau was born in Orléans, where he...
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    1474 in a work by a German monk. In 1627, the French Jesuit theologian Denis Pétau (Dionysius Petavius in Latin), with his work De doctrina temporum, popularized...
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  • practice did not catch on for nearly a thousand years, when books by Denis Pétau treating calendar science gained popularity. Bede did not sequentially...
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  • coach and player Denis Pétau (1583-1652), French Jesuit theologian Denis Peterson (born 1944), American hyperrealist painter Denis Petrashov (born 2000)...
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    definition, but relative to its own solar and lunar dates. Ab urbe condita Denis Petau Lunisolar calendar Sometimes rendered in English as Dennis the Small...
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    (d. 1654) August 19 – Daišan, Manchu politician (d. 1648) August 21 Denis Pétau, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1652) Eleanor of Prussia, Electress consort...
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    College. Greene's story was also mentioned in the 1659 English edition of Denis Pétau's The History of the World and in Robert Plot's 1677 The Natural History...
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    Ferdinand Perier, Belgian, 3rd Archbishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata) Denis Pétau, French scholar and theologian François Para du Phanjas, French writer...
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  • Francium and was the first woman member of the French Academy of Science Denis Pétau (1583–1652), Jesuit theologian Konstanin "Koča" Popović (1908-1992),...
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  • at the Collège de Clermont at Paris, where he studied rhetoric under Denis Pétau. He studied law at Bourges (1622–24) and returned to Paris, where, to...
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    Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) December 11 – Denis Pétau, French theologian and historian (b. 1583) December 23 – John Cotton...
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    Gregentios"—possibly the same treatise—were catalogued as part of the library of Denis Pétau that had been purchased after his death by Queen Christina of Sweden...
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    (d. 1654) August 19 – Daišan, Manchu politician (d. 1648) August 21 Denis Pétau, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1652) Eleanor of Prussia, Electress consort...
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    the existence of a uniform early Christian tradition. Influenced by Denis Pétau (Petavius), some noted that pre-Nicene Fathers were closer to Arian theology...
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  • film writer-director (Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, Nebraska) Denis Pétau - also known as Petavius, French Jesuit theologian Francis Petre - New...
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    reprinted in the Vranologion (Uranology, or "The Study of the Heavens") of Denis Pétau (Paris 1630). See also The Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the VIth century...
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  • first published in 1567, then in the Uranologion of the Jesuit scholar Denis Pétau, with a Latin translation in 1630. The same source also mentions a work...
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    one or more of his works, so that in the field of history Labbe and Denis Pétau have been considered[by whom?] the most remarkable of all French Jesuits...
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  • are named after the former owner of the manuscript, the French Jesuit Denis Pétau (1583–1652), whose name, in Latin, is Dionysius Petavius. The standard...
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    Petavius LRO mosaic Coordinates 25°18′S 60°24′E / 25.3°S 60.4°E / -25.3; 60.4 Diameter 177 km Depth 3.4 km Colongitude 300° at sunrise Eponym Denis Pétau...
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  • 60°47′E / 25.39°S 60.78°E / -25.39; 60.78 (Petavius) 184.06 1935 Denis Petau (1583–1652) WGPSN Petermann 74°21′N 67°53′E / 74.35°N 67.89°E / 74...
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  • of doctrine on rational principles. Damodos's model was the Jesuit Denis Pétau's De theologicis dogmatibus. While declaring his desire to follow “the...
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    Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) December 11 – Denis Pétau, French theologian and historian (b. 1583) December 23 – John Cotton...
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    Petrus, except his name, which he got from a work by Dionysius Petavio (Denis Petau). Eubel I, p. 158 and p. 159, note 2, points out that Bishop Petrus was...
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    undetermined origin, but was also used in Fuller's "Holy State" of 1652, and Denis Petau "History of the World" of 1659. Charles W. Hughes believed the book was...
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  • dispersed. The next mention of the manuscript is as part of the library of Paul Pétau, and in 1650 it was acquired by Christina, Queen of Sweden. The Vatican...
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