Leighton Library has badly wormed 1569 edition of "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob" by John Calvin

Added by Leighton Library at 11:00 on 10 July 2025

#OnThisDay 10 July 1509 John Calvin, influential French theologian during the Protestant Reformation, and after whom Calvanism was named, was born. The Leighton Library has several of his books including a badly wormed 1569 edition of his "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob." published in...

Leighton Library has 1801 edition of “A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas on the sublime and beautiful” by Edmund Burke

Added by Leighton Library at 07:32 on 09 July 2025

The Leighton Library has 1801 edition of “A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas on the sublime and beautiful” by Anglo-Irish politician, journalist and philosopher Edmund Burke, who died #OnThisDay 9 July 1797. He is regarded as the founder of the social and cultural philosophy of con...

Leighton Library has 1696 first edition of the tract "Decreti oxoniensis vindicatio" by Robert South

Added by Leighton Library at 06:39 on 08 July 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1696 first edition of the tract "Decreti oxoniensis vindicatio" by English preacher and theologian Robert South who died #OnThisDay 8 July 1716. This tract was in answer to William Sherlock's "Modest examination of the authority and reasons of the late decree". Robert Sout...