Leighton Library has 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Charles Johnstone

Added by Leighton Library at 08:16 on 05 June 2025

#OnThisDay 5 June 1821, Mrs Hutcheson, a borrower at the Leighton Library, borrowed the library's 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Irish writer Charles Johnstone. This was one of the first of what became an immensely popular eighteenth century genre known as "it-narrativ...

Leighton Library has 1764 edition of "Philosophie rurale ou Économie générale et politique de l'agriculture" by FrVictor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau & François Quesnay

Added by Leighton Library at 07:53 on 04 June 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1764 edition of "Philosophie rurale ou Économie générale et politique de l'agriculture" by French economist and educator Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, and French economist and physician François Quesnay (born #OnThisDay 4 June 1694). This included Quesnay’s “Tab...

Leighton Library has 1702 First Edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by David Gregory

Added by Leighton Library at 05:51 on 03 June 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1702 First Edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory, born #OnThisDay 3 June 1659. He was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and later Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the Univers...