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Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by John Arbuthnot

Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by John Arbuthnot

Added at 06:24 on 29 April 2024
Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by Scottish physician, satirist and polymath, John Arbuthnot who was born #OnThisDay 1667. He inspired Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and invented the fictional figure of John Bull
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