The Leighton Library has 1791 edition of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and 1792 edition of his "Rights of Man"

Added by Leighton Library at 07:36 on 08 June 2024

It's #ThomasPaineDay today as #OnThisDay 8 June 1809 English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary Thomas Paine died. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1791 edition of his "Common Sense - addressed to the ...

Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of “Lexicon Philosophicum” by Rudolph Goclenius

Added by Leighton Library at 06:45 on 08 June 2024

#OnThisDay 8 June 1628 German philosopher & lexicographer Rudolph Goclenius died. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of his “Lexicon Philosophicum” which was the first printed book to contain the word “psychology.”

The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1689 of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" by Henry Dodwell

Added by Leighton Library at 21:19 on 07 June 2024

The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1689 of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" (Dissertations upon Irenaeus) by Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian and controversial writer Henry Dodwell who died #OnThisDay 7 June 1711. This was in the subject of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon