Leighton Library has a 1666 edition of "Memoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantome" by Pierre de Bourdeille

Added by Leighton Library at 04:48 on 15 July 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1666 edition of "Memoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantome. Contenans les vies des hommes illustres & grands capitaines francois de son temps" by French historian, soldier, and biographer Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, who died #OnThisDay ...

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...