Serted in Payne's Compayr6's History of Education Two specimen pages from another edition are in. Motum terrae circa solem " [as the ancients used to think įor later authorities hold that the motion of the earth " prout veteres crediderunt recentiores enim defendunt Taiur, et ambit terram, in medio stantem " interpolates : Sun and after the statement of Conienius, "Caelum ro. Under it in which the earth is revolving about the Practically as in this edition, but puts another cut On the other hand, the Vienna edition contains aĬurious additional cut. Gether, and indeed there are but 82 in place of theġ57 found in earlier editions, the following, as num-bered in this edition, being omittedġ, the alphabet, 2, 36, 43,45. Published in Vienna in 1779, this cut is omitted alto.
II., and adds that it isĭifiBcult to recognize in this an expressive psycholog. 43, as here given,^ a picture of an eye, and inĪ table the figures I. The edition ot 1 7 5 5 substitutes for the original cut of the Then as the oldĬopper-plates became indistinct they were replacedīy wood-engravings, of coarse execution, and often It was a book chil-ĭren were fond of and wore out in turning the leaves Many as have been the editions,įew copies have been preserved. It is reproduced now but that it has not been repro-ĭuced before. It was the first picture-book ever made for childrenĪnd was for a century the most popular text-book inĮurope, and yet has been for many years unattaina-īle on account of its rarity, the wonder is, not that an educational classic of prime importance, but that In spite of the frequent errors due to the difficulties of copying in reverse for printing, his pictures were a great contribution to the success of the Hungarian version of Orbis Pictus.When it is remembered that this work is not only His pictures, also seen in the 1728 Levoca edition now kept in the University Library, exactly mirror the ones of the Nuremberg edition, proving that he copied directly from the original. While the illustrator of the first and all the following German editions is unknown, the 151 wood engravings of the Levoca editions were provenly made by Jonas Bubenka, the Latin teacher of the Levoca Evangelical School. After the first, 1658 Nuremberg edition, the first Hungarian edition came from Samuel Breuer’s typography in Levoca in 1685. According to Comenius, the usefulness of Orbis Pictus is threefold: it helps children to memorize concepts, makes them enjoy reading, and offers aesthetic delight to „seek pleasure in books”. Its theory is pansophic encyclopedism, its method is based upon natural, simple and clear style. This is the most important product of Comenius’s activity in Hungary, a textbook for reading and language learning, a diverse encyclopedia in form of a children’s picture book. „Let it be given to children into their hands to delight themselves withal they please, with the sight of the pictures, and making them as familiar to themselves as may be, and that even at home before they be put to school” – says Comenius in his preface to Orbis Pictus. Orbis Sensualium Pictus was an enormous success for a textbook with a long row of editions between its first Nuremberg publication in 1658, and the last – apparently still to be used in schools – in Leipzig, 1910. Yet, the first theoretically elaborated and well completed comprehensive work of this genre was Comenius’s masterpiece. In the 17 th century, illustrated books had been there for at least 150 years, and the idea of illustrated textbooks to facilitate efficient education also existed. Johannes Amos Comenius’s Orbis Sensualium Pictus can be regarded as the first widely used illustrated educational book made especially for children.
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