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...

Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi

Added by Leighton Library at 06:57 on 25 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Italian philosopher and scientist Francesco Patrizi who was born #OnThisDay 25 April 1529. In this book he attacked the character and works of Aristotle, and defended that of Plato. He was a scholar of history, rhetoric and the...

Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Julius Caesar Scaliger

Added by Leighton Library at 06:30 on 23 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Italian scholar and physician Julius Caesar Scaliger who was born #OnThisDay 1484. This was "Exoteric Exercises" on the book "De Subtilitate" by Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardan. ...

Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by Wilhelm Schickard

Added by Leighton Library at 06:18 on 22 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by German mathematician and professor of Hebrew and Astronomy Wilhelm Schickard who was born #OnThisDay 1592. He became famous in the 20th century after it was claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the public release ...