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Petau, Denis, 1583-1652

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  • Denis Pétau, seated at a desk in a vast library, writing his historical and chronological works; medallions of Solon, Hippocrates, Cicero and Homer above. Engraving, 1724.
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    Confutatio animadversionum A. Cercoetti [i.e. D. Petau] ad C. Salmasii notas in Tertullianum de Pallio / Auctore Francisco Franco [i.e. C. de S].

    Saumaise, Claude, 1588-1653. | Date: 1623
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    Ivliani Imp. opera, qvæ qvidem reperiri potvervnt, omnia ea verò partim antehac edita, partim nunc primùm è manuscriptis eruta & ad horum fidem accuratissime castigata, gracè latinèque prodeunt, cum notis [D. Petavii] / [Julian].

    Julian, Emperor of Rome, 331-363. | Date: 1630
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    The history of the world or, an account of time / Compiled by the learned Dionisius Petavius. And continued by others, to the year ... 1659. Together with a geographicall descirption of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. [Ed. by R.P].

    Petau, Denis, 1583-1652 | Date: 1659
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    Denis Pétau, seated at a desk in a vast library, writing his historical and chronological works; medallions of Solon, Hippocrates, Cicero and Homer above. Engraving, 1724.

    | Date: 1724 | Reference: 568151i
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    Rationarium temporum in partes duas, libros tredecim distributum. In quo aetatum omnium sacra profanaque historia chronologicis probationibus munita summatim traditur / [Denis Petau].

    Petau, Denis, 1583-1652 | Date: 1688
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