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

Added by Leighton Library at 06:45 on 08 June 2024

#OnThisDay 8 June 1628 German philosopher & lexicographer Rudolph Goclenius died. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of his “Lexicon Philosophicum” which was the first printed book to contain the word “psychology.”

The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1689 of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" by Henry Dodwell

Added by Leighton Library at 21:19 on 07 June 2024

The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1689 of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" (Dissertations upon Irenaeus) by Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian and controversial writer Henry Dodwell who died #OnThisDay 7 June 1711. This was in the subject of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon

The Leighton Library has 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Charles Johnstone

Added by Leighton Library at 05:56 on 05 June 2024

#OnThisDay 5 June 1821, Mrs Hutcheson, a borrower at Dunblane's Leighton Library, borrowed the library's 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Irish writer Charles Johnstone. This was one of the first of what became an immensely popular eighteenth century genre known as "it-n...

Leighton Library has a 1702 edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by David Gregory

Added by Leighton Library at 06:52 on 03 June 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1702 edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory who was born #OnThisDay 3 June 1659. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and later Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the Univer...

The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" by Madeleine de Scudéry

Added by Leighton Library at 05:15 on 02 June 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" (New conversations on various topics) by French author Madeleine de Scudéry (known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry) who died #OnThisDay 2 June 1701. This text offered the rhetoric of salon conversation and model...