Leighton Library has a 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by celebrated Scottish mathematician John Napier

Added by Leighton Library at 12:34 on 04 April 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by celebrated Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (best known as discoverer of logarithms, and after whom Edinburgh Napier University is named) John Napier who died #OnThisDay 4 April 16...

Leighton Library has 1652 edition of collected works of English poet, orator, and priest George Herbert

Added by Leighton Library at 07:36 on 03 April 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1652 first edition of "Herbert's Remains, Or, Sundry Pieces Of that sweet Singer of the Temple consisting of his collected writings from A Priest to the Temple, Jacula Prudentum, Sentences, & c., as well as a letter, several prayers, and three Latin poems" by English poet,...

Leighton Library has a 1654 edition of "Letters to severall persons of honour" by eminent English poet John Donne

Added by Leighton Library at 04:38 on 31 March 2024

Leighton Library has a 1654 edition of "Letters to severall persons of honour" by eminent English poet and cleric John Donne, who died #OnThisDay 31 March 1631. This is a collection of his letters collected and published by his son, and which illustrate his relationship with his family and others. H...

Leighton Library has a 1658 first edition of "Horae hebraicae et talmudicae" by John Lightfoot

Added by Leighton Library at 05:52 on 29 March 2024

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1658 first edition of "Horae hebraicae et talmudicae" by English priest and academic John Lightfoot, who was born #OnThisDay 29 March 1602. This is his best-known work, with this volume (a commentary relating to the Gospel of Matthew) being the first of a s...

Leighton Library has a 1659 2nd edition of "Eruditionis scholasticae atrium, rerum & linguarum ornamenta exhibens" by Comenius

Added by Leighton Library at 07:04 on 28 March 2024

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1659 2nd edition of "Eruditionis scholasticae atrium, rerum & linguarum ornamenta exhibens; una cum ejusdem Fortio redivivo, sive De pellenda scholis ignavia" by Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education, J...