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Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

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

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

Added at 09:30 on 01 March 2025
The Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of the first printed book to contain the word psychology. It's “Lexicon Philosophicum” by German philosopher & lexicographer Rudolph Goclenius who was born #OnThisDay 1 March 1547. He used the term 'ontology' in this “Lexicon philosophicum”
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