Leighton Library has 6 volumes of 1790-91 edition of "Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece" by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

Added by Leighton Library at 08:40 on 24 February 2025

🏛️ #OnThisDay 24 February 1795, Reverend Mr Robert Campbell (1738-1803), Minister of Erskine Secession Church in Stirling from 1766-1803, borrowed books from Dunblane's historic Leighton Library. He borrowed 6 volumes of the 1790-91 edition of "Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece" by Jean-J...

Leighton Library has 1635 edition of “Quod Deus sit, mundusque ab ipso creatus fuerit in tempore” by Jean-Baptiste Morin

Added by Leighton Library at 09:10 on 23 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1635 edition of “Quod Deus sit, mundusque ab ipso creatus fuerit in tempore” by French mathematician, astrologer & astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin (also known as Morinus) who was born #OnThisDay 23 February 1583

Leighton Library has 1618 edition of "Thomae Bradwardini archiepiscopi olim cantuariensis" edited by Sir Henry Savile

Added by Leighton Library at 07:53 on 19 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1618 edition of "Thomae Bradwardini archiepiscopi olim cantuariensis" edited by English scholar & mathematician Sir Henry Savile who died #OnThisDay 19 February 1622. He was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy ...

Leighton Library has 1589 edition of Casaubon’s “Poluainou Strategematon” which has Latin translations by Isaac Casaubon

Added by Leighton Library at 07:24 on 18 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of “Poluainou Strategematon” which has Latin translations (by Swiss philologist and scholar Isaac Casaubon who was born #OnThisDay 18 February 1559) beside the original Greek in parallel columns of 2nd-century Macedonian author Polyaenus best-known work for “S...

Leighton Library has 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae by Philipp Melanchthon

Added by Leighton Library at 13:41 on 16 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae (Latin for Common Places in Theology or Fundamental Doctrinal Themes) by German astronomer, theologian & academic Philipp Melanchthon who was born #OnThisDay 1497. Martin Luther said of this boo...