Leighton Library has 1656 First Edition of Abraham Cowley's "Poems : viz.I. Miscellanies. II. The mistress, or, Love verses. III. Pindarique odes. And IV. Davideis, or, A sacred poem of the troubles of David"

Added by Leighton Library at 07:38 on 19 May 2024

#OnThisDay 19 May 1802, Mr Cornelius Stewart, a borrower at Dunblane's Leighton Library borrowed the library's 1656 First Edition of Abraham Cowley's "Poems : viz.I. Miscellanies. II. The mistress, or, Love verses. III. Pindarique odes. And IV. Davideis, or, A sacred poem of the troubles of David"Th...

Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of "Astronomica veterum scripta"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:53 on 18 May 2024

18 May this year is #AstronomyDay#InternationalAstronomyDay#InternationalSpringAstronomyDay #SpringAstronomyDay (held on the Saturday nearest the first quarter moon).The Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of "Astronomica veterum scripta" which draws on the work from many scholars over many centurie...

Leighton Library has 1577 edition of "Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia" by Martín Antonio del Río

Added by Leighton Library at 06:08 on 17 May 2024

#OnThisDay 17 May 1551 Belgian theologian and occultist Martín Antonio del Río was born. His book on magic and the occult "Disquisitionum magicarum" made a connection between witches and heretics, and was one of the books used at the famous Salem witch trials of 1692. It has been asserted that he wa...