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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Leighton Library, Dunblane 📚

@LeightonLib

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library from 17th century Robert Leighton: Principal @EdinburghUni; Chancellor @UofGlasgow; Bishop @DunblaneCathed

Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland Katılım Kasım 2013
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Leighton Library, Dunblane 📚
Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1566 edition of "Historiae Theodorici de Niem, scribae quondam pontificij" by medieval historian Dietrich of Nieheim who died #OnThisDay 1418. As a notary or abbreviator to papal courts he wrote about events in which he had been involved
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1761 edition of "Human nature in its four-fold state," 1840 edition of "Crook in the Lot," & 1791 edition of "Soliloquy on the art of man-fishing" all by Scottish educator, church leader & philosopher Thomas Boston, born #OnThisDay 1676
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#OnThisDay 15 Mar 1792, Reverend Mr Michael Gilfillan, borrowed Dunblane's historic Leighton Library 12-volume 3rd edition (1797) of "Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, & miscellaneous literature," world's longest running encyclopaedia in English
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Leighton Library, Dunblane 📚
A warm welcome was given this afternoon to a number of SITOA guides (independent tour operators from different parts of Scotland) as a familiarisation session to Dunblane Cathedral, Dunblane Museum and the Leighton Library
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1816 edition of "Novum Testamentum syriace, denuo recognitum" (Syriac Scriptures) on which Scottish theologian Claudius Buchanan (born #OnThisDay 1766) had been superintending until his death in the year before publication
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Leighton Library, Dunblane 📚
Shall we look through square, round or arched window as in BBC TV programme for children "Play School" (final episode broadcast #OnThisDay 1988)? From an arched window in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library you can see Andy Murray's Gold Postbox right outside
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Leighton Library, Dunblane 📚
Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae" by Spanish Renaissance scholar Juan Luis Vives March, born #OnThisDay 1493. His perspective on emotions, memory & learning earned him title of "father" of modern psychology
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Leighton Library, Dunblane 📚
Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae" by Spanish Renaissance scholar Juan Luis Vives March, born #OnThisDay 1493. His perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the "father" of modern psychology
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1630 edition of "Atlas minor, ou Briefve description de tout le monde" by Flemish cartographer & mathematician Gerardus Mercator, born #OnThisDay 1512 - gave name to Mercator Projection, & first to use term Atlas for map collection
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