Leighton Library, Dunblane

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

Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae"

Added at 06:31 on 04 September 2024

4 September is #NationalWildlifeDay #WildlifeDay. The Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" (a zoological treatise on the animals of the bible, by French biblical scholar Samuel Bochart. As well as being a religious version of Pliny's "Natural History" and an expansion of Conrad Gesner's "Historiae animalium" the book relates Arabic naturalists, like al-Damîrî and al-Qazwini, none of whose work had appeared in European print before

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