Leighton Library has 6 volumes of 1790-91 edition of "Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece" by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

Added by Leighton Library at 08:40 on 24 February 2025

🏛️ #OnThisDay 24 February 1795, Reverend Mr Robert Campbell (1738-1803), Minister of Erskine Secession Church in Stirling from 1766-1803, borrowed books from Dunblane's historic Leighton Library. He borrowed 6 volumes of the 1790-91 edition of "Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece" by Jean-J...

Leighton Library has 1635 edition of “Quod Deus sit, mundusque ab ipso creatus fuerit in tempore” by Jean-Baptiste Morin

Added by Leighton Library at 09:10 on 23 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1635 edition of “Quod Deus sit, mundusque ab ipso creatus fuerit in tempore” by French mathematician, astrologer & astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin (also known as Morinus) who was born #OnThisDay 23 February 1583

Leighton Library has 1618 edition of "Thomae Bradwardini archiepiscopi olim cantuariensis" edited by Sir Henry Savile

Added by Leighton Library at 07:53 on 19 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1618 edition of "Thomae Bradwardini archiepiscopi olim cantuariensis" edited by English scholar & mathematician Sir Henry Savile who died #OnThisDay 19 February 1622. He was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy ...