Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by William Camden

Added by Leighton Library at 05:35 on 02 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald William Camden who was born #OnThisDay 2 May 1551. This is a Greek grammar which remained a standard school text...

Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes"

Added by Leighton Library at 05:17 on 01 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes" by English essayist, poet, playwright and politician Joseph Addison born #OnThisDay 1 May 1672 and Sir Richard Steele. Together they founded the daily publication The Spectator magazine in 1711. Addison also wrote the popular c...

Leighton Library has a 1731 first edition of the English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:25 on 30 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1731 first edition of the English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis" ("The history of the Inquisition") by Dutch theologian and author Philipp van Limborch who died #OnThisDay 30 April 1712. This is still considered important nowadays for its meticulous...

Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by John Arbuthnot

Added by Leighton Library at 06:24 on 29 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by Scottish physician, satirist and polymath, John Arbuthnot who was born #OnThisDay 1667. He inspired Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and inv...

Leighton Library has a 1769 edition of "An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense" by Thomas Reid

Added by Leighton Library at 06:28 on 26 April 2024

#OnThisDay 26 April 1710 Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid was born. He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, key player in the Scottish Enlightenment & joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1769 edition of his "An Inquiry into t...