Leighton Library has 1678 edition of "De la recherche de la verite" (The search for the truth) by Nicolas Malebranche

Added by Leighton Library at 07:21 on 06 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1678 edition of "De la recherche de la verite" (The search for the truth) by French priest and rationalist philosopher Nicolas Malebranche who was born #OnThisDay 6 August 1638. This deals with the Nature of the Spirit of Man, and what he must do to avoid the error in the ...

Leighton Library has a 1600 edition of "M. Manili Astronomicon a Iosepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum" by Joseph Scaliger

Added by Leighton Library at 06:28 on 05 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1600 edition of "M. Manili Astronomicon a Iosepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum" by French-born Dutch philologist and historian Joseph Scaliger who was born #OnThisDay 5 August 1540. This was then the most scholarly edition of the view...

Leighton Library has a 1612 edition of "A letter to a friende" by Hugh Broughton

Added by Leighton Library at 07:17 on 04 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1612 edition of "A letter to a friende" by English scholar and theologian Hugh Broughton (who was satirised by Ben Jonson) who died from consumption (tuberculosis) #OnThisDay 4 August 1612

Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of "The American atlas : or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America composed from numerous surveys by Major Holland et al Engraved on forty-nine copper-plates, by Thomas Jefferys."

Added by Leighton Library at 09:22 on 02 August 2024

#OnThisDay 2 August 1776 the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a contemporary 1776edition of "The American atlas : or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America composed from numerous surveys by Major Holl...

Leighton Library has a 1537 edition of "Novvs orbis regionum" edited by Simon Grynaeus

Added by Leighton Library at 07:13 on 01 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1537 edition of "Novvs orbis regionum" edited by influential German academic Simon Grynaeus who died suddenly from the plague #OnThisDay 1 August 1541