Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of “Titi Livii Historiarum libri ex recensione heinsiana.” by Daniel Heinsius

Added by Leighton Library at 07:19 on 09 June 2024

#OnThisDay 9 June 1580 one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance, Daniel Heinsius, was born. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of his “Titi Livii Historiarum libri ex recensione heinsiana.” In 1612 he was appointed as 'Professor Politices' at the University of Le...

The Leighton Library has 1791 edition of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and 1792 edition of his "Rights of Man"

Added by Leighton Library at 07:36 on 08 June 2024

It's #ThomasPaineDay today as #OnThisDay 8 June 1809 English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary Thomas Paine died. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1791 edition of his "Common Sense - addressed to the ...

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...