Leighton Library has 1762 first edition of "Émile, or On Education" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Added by Leighton Library at 07:58 on 28 June 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1762 first edition of the novel by highly influential political and educational philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born #OnThisDay 28 June 1712) "Émile, or On Education" (a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship, which was banned in Paris and Geneva ...

Leighton Library has 1576 edition of "Ioannis Caluini Epistolae et responsa" by Théodore de Bèze

Added by Leighton Library at 06:18 on 24 June 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1576 edition of "Ioannis Caluini Epistolae et responsa" by French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar Théodore de Bèze who was born #OnThisDay 24 June 1519. He played an important role in the Protestant Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and li...

Leighton Library has 1740 edition of “Metrum de praelio apud Bannockburn” by Robert Baston

Added by Leighton Library at 06:56 on 23 June 2025

The Battle of Bannockburn began #OnThisDay 23 June 1314. The Leighton Library has a 1740 edition of a contemporary account, in verse form in Latin from 1314, by the poet Robert Baston “Metrum de praelio apud Bannockburn”. Robert Baston had been brought along by the English forces to write about thei...