James Fraser, CEO of the Loch Katrine Steamship Trust, met today with members of the Leighton Library group

Added by Leighton Library at 13:53 on 13 May 2024

James Fraser, CEO of the Loch Katrine Steamship Trust, met today with members of the Leighton Library group looking at developing the Undercroft into a visitor welcome, interpretation and engagement space. Many thanks to James for generously sharing of his experience from many tourism destinations a...

Leighton Library has a 1680 edition of "Histoire critique du Vieux Testament" by Richard Simon

Added by Leighton Library at 08:47 on 13 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1680 edition of the controversial "Histoire critique du Vieux Testament" by French priest, influential biblical critic and orientalist Richard Simon who was born #OnThisDay 13 May 1638. In this book Richard Simon denied that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch and showed th...

Leighton Library has a 1615 first edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" by Matteo Ricci

Added by Leighton Library at 17:36 on 11 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1615 first edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" (On the Christian Mission among the Chinese) by Italian priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci who died #OnThisDay 11 May 1610. He argued that Confucianism and Christianity are remarkably similar. His journals contain...

Leighton Library has a 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" by Juan de Ávila

Added by Leighton Library at 06:17 on 10 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" - the works of Spanish priest, preacher, author, and religious mystic declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church, Juan de Ávila, who died #OnThisDay 10 May 1569. During his nine years of missionary w...

Leighton Library has a 1550 edition of "Tutte le opere" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Added by Leighton Library at 07:55 on 03 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1550 edition of "Tutte le opere" (All works) by Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli who was born #OnThisDay 3 May 1469. The term "Machiavellian" refers to the traits Machiavelli described in his book "The Prince," cons...