Leighton Library has a 1558 edition of "Breuis et perspicua ratio iudicandi genituras" to which John Dee contributed

Added by Leighton Library at 06:09 on 13 July 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1558 edition of "Breuis et perspicua ratio iudicandi genituras, ex physicis causis & vera experientia extructa: Cypriano Leouitio a Leonicia autore" to which mathematician, astronomer, astrologer & occultist John Dee, who was born #OnThisDay 13 July 1527, contributed. He d...

The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Desiderius Erasmus

Added by Leighton Library at 06:39 on 12 July 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Dutch philosopher widely considered to have been greatest scholar of northern Renaissance, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam who died #OnThisDay 12 July 1536. It is said tha...

Leighton Library has a 1644 edition of "Observations upon religio medici" by Sir Kenelm Digby

Added by Leighton Library at 08:08 on 11 July 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1644 edition of "Observations upon religio medici" by English courtier, diplomat, natural philosopher & astrologer Sir Kenelm Digby who was born #OnThisDay 11 July 1603. He had an interest in alchemy, came up with an early theory of photosynthesis, and was considered the f...

Leighton Library has badly wormed 1569 edition of "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob" by John Calvin

Added by Leighton Library at 06:11 on 10 July 2024

#OnThisDay 10 July 1509 John Calvin, influential French theologian during the Protestant Reformation, and after whom Calvanism was named, was born. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has several of his books including a badly wormed 1569 edition of his "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Io...

Leighton Library has a 1744 edition of "Sermons preached upon several occasions" by Robert South

Added by Leighton Library at 05:32 on 08 July 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1744 edition of "Sermons preached upon several occasions" by English preacher and theologian Robert South who died #OnThisDay 8 July 1716. He was praised for his wit, and one of his well-known witty poems of the time "Musica incantans" was about the power of music