Leighton Library has 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi

Added by Leighton Library at 07:13 on 25 April 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Italian philosopher and scientist Francesco Patrizi who was born #OnThisDay 25 April 1529. In this book he attacked the character and works of Aristotle, and defended that of Plato. He was a scholar of history, rhetoric and...

Leighton Library has first edition of 1789 of "An historical narrative of the shipwreck and captivity of Mr de Brisson, with a description of the deserts of Africa, from Senegal to Morocco"

Added by Leighton Library at 07:16 on 24 April 2025

#OnThisDay 24 April 1800, William Murdoch, a borrower at the Leighton Library, borrowed the Leighton Library's first edition of 1789 of "An historical narrative of the shipwreck and captivity of Mr de Brisson, with a description of the deserts of Africa, from Senegal to Morocco." If you'd like to ex...

Leighton Library has 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Julius Caesar Scaliger

Added by Leighton Library at 07:41 on 23 April 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Italian scholar and physician Julius Caesar Scaliger who was born #OnThisDay 23 April 1484. This was "Exoteric Exercises" on the book "De Subtilitate" by Italian polymath Gero...

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

Added by Leighton Library at 05:45 on 22 April 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by German mathematician and professor of Hebrew and Astronomy Wilhelm Schickard who was born #OnThisDay 22 April 1592. He became famous in the 20th century after it was claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the pu...

Leighton Library has 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum” by Philipp Melanchthon

Added by Leighton Library at 12:38 on 19 April 2025

#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. The Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of his "Lo...