Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by Wilhelm Schickard

Added by Leighton Library at 06:18 on 22 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by German mathematician and professor of Hebrew and Astronomy Wilhelm Schickard who was born #OnThisDay 1592. He became famous in the 20th century after it was claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the public release ...

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

Added by Leighton Library at 07:23 on 19 April 2024

#OnThisDay 19 April 1560 German astronomer, theologian & academic Philipp Melanchthon died. He was a collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, and intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1543 ed...

Leighton Library has a 1604 edition of "De inventoribus rerum"

Added by Leighton Library at 12:56 on 18 April 2024

#OnThisDay 18 April 1555 Italian scholar, historian, priest and diplomat dubbed the "Father of English History" Polydore Vergil died. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1604 edition of one of the books for which he is best remembered, a history of discoveries and origins, "De inventoribus re...