Leighton Library has 1558 edition of "Breuis et perspicua ratio iudicandi genituras, ex physicis causis & vera experientia extructa" to which John Dee contributed

Added by Leighton Library at 06:53 on 13 July 2025

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...

Leighton Library has 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Desiderius Erasmus

Added by Leighton Library at 07:15 on 12 July 2025

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 1536. It is said that, by th...

Leighton Library has 1644 edition of "Observations upon religio medici" by Sir Kenelm Digby

Added by Leighton Library at 06:40 on 11 July 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1644 edition of "Observations upon religio medici" by English courtier, diplomat, natural philosopher & astrologer Sir Kenelm Digby who was born #OnThisDay 11 July 1603. He had an interest in alchemy, came up with an early theory of photosynthesis, and was considered the f...