Orbis Pictus
Orbis Pictus, or Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Visible World in Pictures), is a textbook for children written by Czech educator John Amos Comenius and published in 1658. It was the first widely used children's textbook with pictures, published first in Latin and German and later republished in many European languages.[1] It has been described as "probably the first purpose-made children's picturebook".[2] The revolutionary[3] book quickly spread around Europe and became the defining children's textbook for centuries.
Contents
The book is divided into chapters illustrated by copperplate prints, which are described in the accompanying text. In most editions, the text is given in both Latin and the child's native language. The book has 150 chapters and covers a wide range of subjects:[citation needed]
History
Originally published in
Orbis Pictus had a long-lasting influence on children's education. It was a precursor of both audio-visual techniques and the lexical approach in language learning.[4]
In 1930 Otto Neurath claimed that images in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft constituted a new Orbis Pictus.[5]
See also
References
- ISBN 0-208-02297-X.
- ISBN 978-0-03-020301-5.
- ^ Orbis Sensualium Pictus Lecture
- ^ "Learning from Comenius - the pedagogical underpinnings of the Orbis Pictus".
- ^ Neurath, Otto (1930). Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Vienna: Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum. p. 101.
External links
- Online selections from Orbis Pictus in Latin
- Comenius, Johann Amos (1887). gutenberg.org/ebooks/28299
- At Internet Archive, the first American from the twelfth London edition, 1810. https://archive.org/details/orbissensualiump00come/page/n5/mode/2up
- Comenius, Johann Amos; OCLC 166163., at Google Book Search
User Review - I was interested in this book after reading about Comenius on Wikipedia and being referred to Google Book Search as a source of this as an early children's textbook. A discouraging flaw in this book is that pages 8-15 are scanned out of order, and there are two copies of page 12 and no copy of page 8 in the resulting images. It would be good to have a direct way to report such trouble without having to go searching around the help pages.
- translation by Charles Hoole - Orbis sensualium pictus trilinguis. Latin, German and Hungarian, 1708
- Orbis sensualium pictus trilinguis. Leutschoviae : Typis Samuelis Brewer, Anno Salutis 1685. 484 s. - - available at ULB's Digital Library
- Orbis Pictus, in hungaricum et germanicum translatus. Po'sonban: Weber, 19. stor. 172 s. - available at ULB's Digital Library
- Orbis pictus von Amos Comenius. [Nürnberg]: [s.n.], 1770. 263 s. - available at ULB's Digital Library