The Leighton Library has 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Charles Johnstone

Added by Leighton Library at 05:56 on 05 June 2024

#OnThisDay 5 June 1821, Mrs Hutcheson, a borrower at Dunblane's Leighton Library, borrowed the library's 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Irish writer Charles Johnstone. This was one of the first of what became an immensely popular eighteenth century genre known as "it-n...

Leighton Library has a 1702 edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by David Gregory

Added by Leighton Library at 06:52 on 03 June 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1702 edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory who was born #OnThisDay 3 June 1659. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and later Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the Univer...

The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" by Madeleine de Scudéry

Added by Leighton Library at 05:15 on 02 June 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" (New conversations on various topics) by French author Madeleine de Scudéry (known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry) who died #OnThisDay 2 June 1701. This text offered the rhetoric of salon conversation and model...