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Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus: hoc est omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura (p. 64)
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| Title | Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus: hoc est omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura (p. 64) |
| Alternate Title | Joh. Amos Comenius's visible world, or, A nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of man's employment therein |
| Author | Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670; Hoole, Charles, 1610-1667 (translator) |
| Publisher | Leacroft, S.
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| Publisher Location | England -- London |
| Publication Date | 1777 |
| Printer | Unknown
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| Illustrator | Unknown
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| Image Production Process | Relief prints--woodcuts
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| Notes | Illustrated with uncolored woodcuts.
12th edition.
Reading lessons in English and Latin in columns on each page. Each lesson is accompanied by a diagrammed image that is explained in the lesson.
This page depicts "The Making of Honey." A beekeeper rings a bell to call a swarm of bees home to their hives. |
| Contextual Notes | John Amos Comenius is known as the father of the modern picture book. He was born in Eastern Europe in 1592 and served as a bishop in the Church of the Brethren. In 1651, he took over the running of a grammar school and devised to write this book "which even the most unlettered child could use and one which would facilitate the work of the most unskilled pedagogue." Comenius believed that pictures could introduce students to objects through their senses, then to the words that gave meaning to those objects. It was his belief that the learning of language would lead to the reform of society, the unification of the churches, and ultimately world peace -- a theory he called pansophy. In 1856, he sent the manuscript of his book to Nuremberg where it was published two years later with 150 woodcuts carefully worked out by Michael Endter from the designs of Paul Kreutzberger. It ultimately became the most popular schoolbook in all of Europe. It continued to be published well into the 19th century with the final known edition published in 1845. Since then, there have been several facsimiles of the first English edition published. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children. |
| Category | Readers
Object books
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| Language | Latin
English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL1239 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection. PA2095.C65 1777 |
| Object Type | Book
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| Physical Description | [16], 197, [7] p.: illustrated; 15 x 10 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Photographed from original book in TIFF format using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/EOS 400D, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2009. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit Checklist L.99 |
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