Leighton Library has 1797 edition of "A treatise on the police of the metropolis" by Patrick Colquhoun

Added by Leighton Library at 08:38 on 10 August 2024

#OnThisDay 10 August 1799 Reverend Mr Robert Stirling, a borrower at Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, borrowed the Leighton Library's 1797 edition of "A treatise on the police of the metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which private and public property and ...

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...