''Orbis Pictus'', or ''Orbis Sensualium Pictus'' (''Visible World in Pictures''), is a

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for children written by Czech educator

John Amos Comenius John Amos Comenius (; cs, Jan Amos Komenský; pl, Jan Amos Komeński; german: Johann Amos Comenius; Latinization (literature), Latinized: ''Ioannes Amos Comenius''; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech Philosophy, philosopher, Ped ...

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. The revolutionary book quickly spread around Europe and became the defining children's textbook for centuries.

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: * inanimate

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* botanics *

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History

Originally published in

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and

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in 1658 in

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, the book soon spread to schools in Germany and other countries. The first

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edition was published in 1659. The first quadrilingual edition (in Latin, German, Italian and French) was published in 1666. The first Czech translation was published in the 1685 quadrilingual edition (together with Latin, German and Hungarian), by the

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publishing house in Levoča. In the years 1670 to 1780, new editions were published in various languages, with upgraded both pictures and text content. ''Orbis Pictus'' had a long-lasting influence on

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. It was a precursor of both audio-visual techniques and the lexical approach in language learning. In 1930 Otto Neurath claimed that images in ''Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft'' constituted a new ''Orbis Pictus''.

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Online selections from Orbis Pictus in Latin
* * At Internet Archive, the first American from the twelfth London edition, 1810. https://archive.org/details/orbissensualiump00come/page/n5/mode/2up * - translation by Charles Hoole, at Google Book Search
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''
ürnberg .n. 1770. 263 s. - available at ULB's Digital Library {{Authority control Books by John Amos Comenius Children's encyclopedias 1658 books Illustrated books Latin encyclopedias Czech encyclopedias German encyclopedias Hungarian encyclopedias Italian-language encyclopedias French encyclopedias Multilingual texts 17th-century encyclopedias John Amos Comenius 17th-century Latin books

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