Leighton Library has 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae" by Juan Luis Vives

Added by Leighton Library at 06:00 on 06 March 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae" by Spanish Renaissance scholar Juan Luis Vives who was born #OnThisDay 6 March 1493. His perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the "father" of modern psychology

Leighton Library has a 1557 edition of the collection of satirical poems "Varia doctorũ piorumque virorum"

Added by Leighton Library at 07:00 on 03 March 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1557 edition of the collection of satirical poems "Varia doctorũ piorumque virorum" to which the introduction was added by Croatian theologian Matthias Flacius who was born #OnThisDay 3 March 1520. He was regarded by some as a renegade "we have nourished a snake in our bos...

Leighton Library has 1615 edition of “Lexicon Philosophicum” by Rudolph Goclenius

Added by Leighton Library at 09:30 on 01 March 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of the first printed book to contain the word psychology. It's “Lexicon Philosophicum” by German philosopher & lexicographer Rudolph Goclenius who was born #OnThisDay 1 March 1547. He used the term 'ontology' in this “Lexicon philosophicum”