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The Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comenius: The Educational Classic - The First Illustrated Children's Textbook, Published in 1658

The Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comenius: The Educational Classic - The First Illustrated Children's Textbook, Published in 1658

Comenius, John Amos

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Foreign Language GeneralGeneral EducationBritish History

ISBN10: 1789873134
ISBN13: 9781789873139
Publisher: Pantianos Classics
Published: Dec 2 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Orbis Pictus was the first ever illustrated children's textbook, first published in 1658. This edition is based upon a reprint dated to 1728, and contains 155 drawings, and the full text in both English and Latin.

Intended to provide children with a basic level of familiarity with the principal phenomena of the natural world and human life, the Orbis Pictus - the Visible World - is filled with wide-ranging subjects. Descriptions of plants, animals and the elements, are followed by an anatomical discussion of man. Though the medical knowledge of the time was simple compared with today, the author nevertheless describes the body's functions - digestive and circulatory - with some accuracy.

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