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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 3h

/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
📅 Open Monday to Saturday
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 3h

/…borrowed from Jewish mysticism

More was part of group called Cambridge Platonists, who believed that faith & reason could work together

Book is More’s blend of science, spirituality, & scripture - decoding Bible using mix of logic, imagination, & spiritual insight…/

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 3h

/…More asked:
• What if we looked at it literally (as it’s written)?
• What if we explored it philosophically (using reason & big ideas)?
• What if we tried to understand it mystically (as spiritual or moral message)?

He called these three approaches “Cabbalas” - a term…/

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 3h

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1653 first edition of "Conjectura cabbalistica" by English philosopher & prolific writer of verse & prose Henry More, born #OnThisDay 1614

Book is exploration of deeper meaning behind story of creation in Genesis…/👇

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 12h

/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library
📅 Open Monday to Saturday
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoy watching a new video from Bruce Fummey of Scotland History Tours about some of the banned books in Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library, with a particular focus on one by Robert Leighton’s father, Alexander Leighton

▶️ youtu.be/xZBrPp737V0
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The Most DANGEROUS Book in Scotland's Oldest Library

YouTube video by Scotland History Tours

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

/…Enlightenment-era debate about reason versus faith, whether universe has purpose, or whether science leaves room for spirituality

🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
📅 Open Mon-Sat
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

/…belief in God, soul, & divine order using elegant Latin verse

Polignac wrote in Latin, continuing tradition of scholarly poetry. His verses are admired for their style. Book embodies key moment in European thought - when science, religion & philosophy were part of broader…/

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

/…defence of Epicurean philosophy. He argued that everything is made of atoms, that soul dies with body, & that gods don’t interfere with world - all quite radical for ancient Rome

Polignac didn’t agree with that. So he wrote Anti-Lucretius, poetic counterattack, to defend…/

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1748 edition of unfinished refutation of Lucretius, by French diplomat, Cardinal & neo-Latin poet Melchior Cardinal de Polignac, born #OnThisDay 1661

Lucretius was Roman poet & philosopher who wrote On the Nature of Things, poetic…/👇

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 2d

/…dynamics, & various branches of mathematics

🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
📅 Open Mon-Sat
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 2d

/…mathematics at University of Edinburgh, & later Savilian Professor of Astronomy at University of Oxford

He extended method of quadratures by infinite series, & as professor was first to lecture publicly on Newtonian philosophy. His lectures covered geodesy, optics…/

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 2d

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1702 first edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" (first textbook on gravitational principals & astronomy) by Scottish mathematician & astronomer David Gregory who died #OnThisDay 1708

He was professor of…/👇

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library
📅 Open Monday to Saturday
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

/…And if you’d like it expertly framed then ask about costs at Ian McNab Gallery & Picture Framer where they’ll be able to have that done

🚪 Opening times of Ian McNab Gallery & Picture Framer:
Tue 10am-4.30pm
Thu 10am-4.30pm
Fri 10.30am-4.30pm
Sat 10.30am-4.30pm…/

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

For limited time, courtesy Ian McNab Gallery & Picture Framer in Dunblane High Street, buy your own copy of 1746 map of Scotland, to hang on your wall or as gift, for just £30 (in protective carry postal tube) at same time you’ll benefit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library…/👇

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 4d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
📅 Open Monday to Saturday
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 4d

/…He established 1 of finest libraries developed of Renaissance era. His object was to produce scientific & unbiased work detailing history

However this exposed him to persecution by authorities. His history was first published in complete 138 books 3 years after his death…/

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 4d

Dunblane's historic Leighton library has 6-volume 1620-1621 edition of "Illustris viri Iacobi Augusti Thuani Historiarum sui temporis" by French historian, book collector & president of Parliament of Paris Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus), born #OnThisDay 1553…/👇

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 5d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library
📅 Open Monday to Saturday
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 5d

Have you had a look at beautiful items available in Leighton Library online shop? Every purchase supports the Leighton Library. From coasters & tote bags, framed & unframed prints, to mugs, table mats & tea towels. Leighton Library Online Shop:
🛍️ leighton-library-shop.co.uk
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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

/…could to his town house directly opposite the site (now a garden space opposite the Leighton Library)

#ArchitectureDay
#WorldDayOfArchitecture
#DayOfArchitecture

🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
📅 Open Mon-Sat
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

It's #WorldArchitectureDay
today. Lieutenant-General William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan, Baron Drummond of Cromlix, & Commander of Forces in Scotland was friend of Robert Leighton, & architect of Leighton Library.

During its construction he came as often as he…/👇

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 7d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
📅 Open Monday to Saturday
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

The Leighton Library has a first edition of Sir Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"

YouTube video by Leighton Library Dunblane

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 7d

It's #NationalStorytellingDay #StorytellingDay. Dunblane's Historic Leighton Library has 1810 first edition of celebrated Scottish storyteller Sir Walter Scott's epic narrative poem "Lady of the Lake" (helped make Trossachs a top tourist destination)
youtu.be/cIUeHhSn7_0
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