Leighton Library has a 1649 edition of "Exercitationes paradoxicae, adversus aristoteleos" by Pierre Gassendi

Added by Leighton Library at 06:38 on 24 October 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1649 edition of "Exercitationes paradoxicae, adversus aristoteleos" (Paradoxical Exercises Against the Aristotelians) by French philosopher, priest, astronomer & mathematician Pierre Gassendi who died #OnThisDay 24 October 1655. He published the first data on the transit o...

Leighton Library has 1642 edition of “Makariou Theodoritou episkopou Kurou 'Apanta. Beati Theodoreti episcopi Cyri Opera omnia” by Jacques Sirmond

Added by Leighton Library at 09:26 on 22 October 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1642 edition of “Makariou Theodoritou episkopou Kurou 'Apanta. Beati Theodoreti episcopi Cyri Opera omnia” by French scholar Jacques Sirmond who was born #OnThisDay 22 October 1559. He brought out many editions of Latin and Byzantine chroniclers of the Middle Ages.

Leighton Library has 1581 edition of “Poetices libri septem” by Julius Caesar Scaliger

Added by Leighton Library at 07:47 on 21 October 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of “Poetices libri septem” (Seven books on Poetics) by Italian scholar and physician Julius Caesar Scaliger, who died #OnThisDay 21 October 1558. This contained paradoxes, and animosity against specific individuals, and described as the most comprehensive and ...