Leighton Library has 1589 edition of Casaubon’s “Poluainou Strategematon” which has Latin translations by Isaac Casaubon

Added by Leighton Library at 07:24 on 18 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of “Poluainou Strategematon” which has Latin translations (by Swiss philologist and scholar Isaac Casaubon who was born #OnThisDay 18 February 1559) beside the original Greek in parallel columns of 2nd-century Macedonian author Polyaenus best-known work for “S...

Leighton Library has 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae by Philipp Melanchthon

Added by Leighton Library at 13:41 on 16 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae (Latin for Common Places in Theology or Fundamental Doctrinal Themes) by German astronomer, theologian & academic Philipp Melanchthon who was born #OnThisDay 1497. Martin Luther said of this boo...

Leighton Library has 1596 edition of "De natura noui orbis" about the New World, by José de Acosta

Added by Leighton Library at 09:27 on 15 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1596 edition of "De natura noui orbis" about the New World, by Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America José de Acosta who died #OnThisDay 15 February 1600. His deductions related to the atmosphere, when crossing over the Andes, is a variety of altitude si...