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Leighton Library has 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi
Added at 07:13 on 25 April 2025
The Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Italian philosopher and scientist...
Leighton Library has first edition of 1789 of "An historical narrative of the shipwreck and captivity of Mr de Brisson, with a description of the deserts of Africa, from Senegal to Morocco"
Added at 07:16 on 24 April 2025
#OnThisDay 24 April 1800, William Murdoch, a borrower at the Leighton Library, borrowed the Leighton Library's...
Leighton Library has 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Julius Caesar Scaliger
Added at 07:41 on 23 April 2025
The Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymu...
Leighton Library has 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by Wilhelm Schickard
Added at 05:45 on 22 April 2025
The Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by German mathematician and professor of Hebr...
Leighton Library has 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum” by Philipp Melanchthon
Added at 12:38 on 19 April 2025
#OnThisDay 19 April 1560 German astronomer, theologian & academic Philipp Melanchthon died. He was a collabora...