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...

Leighton Library has 1596 edition of "De natura noui orbis" about the New World, by José de Acosta

Added by Leighton Library at 09:27 on 15 February 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1596 edition of "De natura noui orbis" about the New World, by Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America José de Acosta who died #OnThisDay 15 February 1600. His deductions related to the atmosphere, when crossing over the Andes, is a variety of altitude si...

Leighton Library has 1689 First Edition of “The declaration of the Estates of the kingdom of Scotland, containing the claim of right, and the offer of the Crown to Their Majesties King William & Queen Mary”

Added by Leighton Library at 10:28 on 13 February 2025

Leighton Library has a 1689 First Edition of “The declaration of the Estates of the kingdom of Scotland, containing the claim of right, and the offer of the Crown to Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary”. This came about as a consequence of William and Mary being proclaimed co-rulers of Engla...