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From time to time content will be added here to share information about specific aspects of the Leighton Library collection
Leighton Library has a 1769 edition of "An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense" by Thomas Reid
Added at 06:28 on 26 April 2024
#OnThisDay 26 April 1710 Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid was born. He was the founder of the Scottish School ...
Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi
Added at 06:57 on 25 April 2024
Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Italian philosopher and scientist Fra...
Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Julius Caesar Scaliger
Added at 06:30 on 23 April 2024
Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Ca...
Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by Wilhelm Schickard
Added at 06:18 on 22 April 2024
Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by German mathematician and professor of Hebrew a...
Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae" by Philipp Melanchthon
Added at 07:23 on 19 April 2024
#OnThisDay 19 April 1560 German astronomer, theologian & academic Philipp Melanchthon died. He was a collabora...