Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi

Added at 06:57 on 25 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Italian philosopher and scientist Francesco Patrizi who was born #OnThisDay 25 April 1529. In this book he attacked the character and works of Aristotle, and defended that of Plato. He was a scholar of history, rhetoric and the art of war. He studied ancient theories of music, and is said to have invented a thirteen-syllable verse form