Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library from 17th century Robert Leighton: Principal @EdinburghUni; Chancellor @UofGlasgow; Bishop @DunblaneCathed
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Book now for opening event for exhibition โ1776 - A year that changed the worldโ on Fri 3 Jul in Dunblane Cathedral Hall
Spaces are limited so click on this link to book now to avoid disappointment: us.list-manage.com/Ai_O_ur5bโฆ
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1615 edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" (On the Christian Mission among the Chinese) by Italian priest & mathematician Matteo Ricci who died #OnThisDay 1610. He argued that Confucianism & Christianity are remarkably similar
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" - works of Spanish priest, preacher, author & religious mystic declared a saint & Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church, Juan de รvila, who died #OnThisDay 1569
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Watch video by Max & Murray about range of items in Dunblaneโs historic Leighton Library, & online, featuring Ptarmigan, as found in Leighton Libraryโs 1771 edition of Buffonโs โOeuvres Complรจtesโ
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#OnThisDay 1737 English historian & politician Edward Gibbon was born. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1776-1788 6 volumes of his "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
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#OnThisDay 1711 David Hume, one of most important figures in history of western philosophy & Scottish Enlightenment, was born. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 8-volume 1763 edition of his "History of England"
โถ๏ธ youtu.be/klI9KU1ZkDU
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#OnThisDay 6 May 2023 Charles III crowned King
Robert Leighton under 3 kings named Charles:
Charles I - persecution & punishment of Robert Leighton's father
Charles II - Robert Leighton appointed Bishop of Dunblane
Charles III - Leighton Library underwent major restoration
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#OnThisDay 1790 John Edmonstoune, borrower at Dunblane's Leighton Library borrowed library's 1781 edition of "Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to Pacific Ocean, on Discovery ; performed in years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779" by John Rickman & James Cook leightonlibrary.org.uk/booksโฆ
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It's #MayThe4th today, so it's #StarWarsDay. Follow in the footsteps of these Star Wars characters & visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, uttering words #MayThe4thBeWith
๐ท And it would help, in the words of Yoda,
"Give a donation, you could"
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1550 edition of "Tutte le opere" (All works) by Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, & writer Niccolรฒ Machiavelli, born #OnThisDay 1469
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by English antiquarian, historian, topographer, & herald William Camden, born #OnThisDay 1551
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It's #InternationalDroneDay #DroneDay. Here's drone video footage of restoration work on Dunblane's historic Leighton Library by stonemasonry firm Gillies & Farrell. Video courtesy of Scotdrone
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes" by English essayist, poet, playwright & politician Joseph Addison born #OnThisDay 1672 & Sir Richard Steele. Together they founded the daily publication in 1711
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Dunblaneโs historic Leighton Library has 1731 edition of English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis" ("History of the Inquisition") by Dutch theologian & author Philipp van Limborch who died #OnThisDay 1712
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Dunblaneโs historic Leighton Library has 1727 edition of โTables of ancient coins, weights & measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertationsโ by Scottish physician, satirist & polymath, John Arbuthnot, born #OnThisDay 1667. He invented fictional figure of John Bull
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It's #GreatPoetryReadingDay. Dunblane's Historic Leighton Library has a first edition of 1810 of epic narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake" (helped Trossachs become tourist destination) by Sir Walter Scott. Why this was important book is set out in video:
youtu.be/4r6h0uoM4ik
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For #NationalTellAStoryDay #TellAStoryDay today, read story of Robert Leighton, whose legacy to Dunblane was creation of Scotlandโs oldest purpose-built independent library: โ leightonlibrary.org.uk/roberโฆ
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A warm welcome to the Leighton Library today was given to members of Friends of Durham Cathedral, while they were also visiting Dunblane Cathedral
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#OnThisDay 1710 Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid was born. Founder of Scottish School of Common Sense, key player in Scottish Enlightenment. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1769 edition of his "An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense"
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Italian philosopher & scientist Francesco Patrizi, born #OnThisDay 1529 - attacking character & works of Aristotle, & defending that of Plato
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