Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of "Astronomica veterum scripta"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:53 on 18 May 2024

18 May this year is #AstronomyDay#InternationalAstronomyDay#InternationalSpringAstronomyDay #SpringAstronomyDay (held on the Saturday nearest the first quarter moon).The Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of "Astronomica veterum scripta" which draws on the work from many scholars over many centurie...

Leighton Library has 1577 edition of "Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia" by Martín Antonio del Río

Added by Leighton Library at 06:08 on 17 May 2024

#OnThisDay 17 May 1551 Belgian theologian and occultist Martín Antonio del Río was born. His book on magic and the occult "Disquisitionum magicarum" made a connection between witches and heretics, and was one of the books used at the famous Salem witch trials of 1692. It has been asserted that he wa...

Leighton Library has a 1799 edition of James Boswell’s "The Life of Samuel Johnson"

Added by Leighton Library at 05:35 on 16 May 2024

Today, 16 May, is #NationalBiographersDay, as it commemorates the first meeting of literary figure Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell #OnThisDay 1763. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1799 edition of Boswell’s "The Life of Samuel Johnson" (considered one of the greatest biogra...

Leighton Library has a 1769 3-volume edition of "Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:38 on 15 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1769 3-volume edition of "Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, &c. in different parts of Europe" by Mary Wortley Montagu who was born #OnThisDay 15 May 168...

Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Discours politiques des rois" by Georges de Scudéry

Added by Leighton Library at 17:37 on 14 May 2024

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Discours politiques des rois" (Political Discourse of Kings) by French novelist, dramatist and poet Georges de Scudéry who died #OnThisDay 14 May 1667.