Leighton Library, Dunblane

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

Leighton Library has a 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" by Hugo Grotius

Added at 06:35 on 28 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" (one of the most important international legal doctrines regarding the seas and oceans, said to be the essence and backbone of the modern law of the sea) by Dutch philosopher, theologian, playwright, historiographer, poet, statesman and diplomat Hugo Grotius who died #OnThisDay 28 August 1645

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