Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1638 edition of one of the best known works of Italian Saint Thomas Aquinas

Added by Leighton Library at 08:05 on 07 March 2024

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1638 edition of "Summa Theologica" one of the best known works of Italian Dominican priest and philosopher, Saint Thomas Aquinas, who died #OnThisDay 1274. He was an immensely influential philosopher and foremost classical proponent of natural theology. Muc...

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae"

Added by Leighton Library at 11:09 on 06 March 2024

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae" by Spanish Renaissance scholar Juan Luis Vives March who was born #OnThisDay, 6 March, 1493. His perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the "father" of modern psychology

Mercator projection and first use of the word Atlas

Added by Leighton Library at 07:37 on 05 March 2024

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1630 edition of "Atlas minor, ou Briefve description de tout le monde" by Flemish cartographer, philosopher & mathematician Gerardus Mercator who was born #OnThisDay, 5 March, 1512. He gave his name to the Mercator Projection. He is best known for his work ...

On 4 March 1798 Dr James Robertson borrowed Leighton Library's 1782 "Adventures of a Rupee"

Added by Leighton Library at 20:00 on 04 March 2024

📚 #OnThisDay (4 March) 1798, Dr James Robertson (who was Minister of Callander, 1768-1812), having given a donation to be a borrower at Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, borrowed its first edition of 1782 of "The adventures of a rupee. Wherein are interspersed various anecdotes Asiatic...