[Religion] D. Petavii Aurelianensis e societate jesu, rationarium temporum in partes duas

In quo aetatum omnium sacra profanaque historia chronologicis probationibus munita summatim traditur, Parisiis, Sebastianum Cramoisy, 1663.

12mo., leather, title on spine and embroidery on front and back casing in gilt-stamping with wear, marbled endpapers, 2 parts in one vol., (14),526,(68),241,(7) pp., Front casing loosening. Denis Pétau was a French jesuit, theologian and historian. He was one of the best chronologer of his time. In chronology, the science of measuring time, he exposes the shortcomings of his rival Josephus Justus Scaliger. He fought against filling op gaps in knowledge with hypotheses and referred to classical texts for support.