Leighton Library has 1768 edition of "Oeuvres de Maupertuis" by Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Added by Leighton Library at 07:42 on 27 July 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1768 edition of "Oeuvres de Maupertuis" by French mathematician and philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis who died #OnThisDay 27 July 1759. He made an expedition to Lapland to determine the shape of the Earth. This provided empirical proof that the Earth is flattened at the ...

Leighton Library has 1680 first edition of "Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester" by Gilbert Burnet

Added by Leighton Library at 07:18 on 26 July 2025

The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1680 of "Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester" by Scottish cleric Gilbert Burnet, who later became Bishop of Salisbury. This biography of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, who died #OnThisDay 26 July 1680, ga...

Leighton Library has 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" by John Newton

Added by Leighton Library at 07:30 on 24 July 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" - the autobiography of John Newton, born #OnThisDay 24 July 1725. This was originally published anonymously under the signatures of Omicron and Vigil in 1764 ...