Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Tommaso Campanella

Added by Leighton Library at 09:06 on 05 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Italian poet, philosopher, astrologer and theologian Tommaso Campanella who was born #OnThisDay 5 September 1568. This partly inspired the first fully-fledged "it-narrative" in English (a genre of novel which follows the f...

Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:31 on 04 September 2024

4 September is #NationalWildlifeDay #WildlifeDay. The Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" (a zoological treatise on the animals of the bible, by French biblical scholar Samuel Bochart. As well as being a religious version of Pliny...

Leighton Library has 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by John Napier

Added by Leighton Library at 15:46 on 02 September 2024

#OnThisDay 2 September 1796 a borrower at Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, Reverend Mr Michael Gilfillan (Secession Burgher minister of Dunblane, 1768-1816) borrowed the Leighton Library's 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by celebrated Scottish mathematic...

Leighton Library has a 1653 first edition of "Conjectura cabbalistica" by Henry More

Added by Leighton Library at 07:23 on 01 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1653 first edition of "Conjectura cabbalistica - a Conjectural Essay of Interpreting the Minde of Moses, according to a Threefold Cabbala: viz. Literal, Philosophical, Mystical, or Divinely Moral" by English philosopher and prolific writer of verse and prose Henry More who...

Leighton Library has a 1883 edition of "Selections from the writings of Archbishop Leighton, edited with a memoir and notes by William Blair"

Added by Leighton Library at 07:04 on 31 August 2024

31 August is #WeLoveMemoirsDay. The Leighton Library has a 1883 edition of "Selections from the writings of Archbishop Leighton, edited with a memoir and notes by William Blair" - the Leighton Library came about due to the bequest of 17th century churchman and academic Robert Leighton, who gifted Du...