Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Tommaso Campanella

Added by Leighton Library at 09:06 on 05 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Italian poet, philosopher, astrologer and theologian Tommaso Campanella who was born #OnThisDay 5 September 1568. This partly inspired the first fully-fledged "it-narrative" in English (a genre of novel which follows the f...

Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:31 on 04 September 2024

4 September is #NationalWildlifeDay #WildlifeDay. The Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" (a zoological treatise on the animals of the bible, by French biblical scholar Samuel Bochart. As well as being a religious version of Pliny...

Leighton Library has 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by John Napier

Added by Leighton Library at 15:46 on 02 September 2024

#OnThisDay 2 September 1796 a borrower at Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, Reverend Mr Michael Gilfillan (Secession Burgher minister of Dunblane, 1768-1816) borrowed the Leighton Library's 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by celebrated Scottish mathematic...