Leighton Library, Dunblane

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

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

Added at 06:45 on 08 June 2024

#OnThisDay 8 June 1628 German philosopher & lexicographer Rudolph Goclenius died. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of his “Lexicon Philosophicum” which was the first printed book to contain the word “psychology.”