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Leighton Library has 1577 edition of "Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia" by Martín Antonio del Río
Added at 06:08 on 17 May 2024
#OnThisDay 17 May 1551 Belgian theologian and occultist Martín Antonio del Río was born. His book on magic and the occult "Disquisitionum magicarum" made a connection between witches and heretics, and was one of the books used at the famous Salem witch trials of 1692. It has been asserted that he was the principal cause of witch-hunts in the Southern Netherlands. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1577 edition of his "Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia" bound in vellum, as well as a 1611 edition of his "In Canticum canticorum Salomonis commentarius litteralis, et catena mystica"
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Leighton Library has a 1744 edition of "Sermons preached upon several occasions" by Robert South
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Leighton Library has a 1629 edition of "Utopia" by Sir Thomas More
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Leighton Library has a 1733 edition of "Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John" by Sir Isaac Newton
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Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of "The American atlas" by Major Samuel Holland
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