![]() ![]() It was a book children were fond of and wore out in turning the leaves over and over to see the pictures. Many as have been the editions, few copies have been preserved. ![]() But the difficulty has been to find a satisfactory copy. When it is remembered that this work is not only an educational classic of prime importance, but that it was the first picture-book ever made for children and was for a century the most popular text-book in Europe, and yet has been for many years unattainable on account of its rarity, the wonder is, not that it is reproduced now but that it has not been reproduced before. Payne, Compayre’s History of Education, Boston This was on the resignation of President Dunster, in 1654. But the solicitations of the Swedish Ambassador diverting him another way, that incomparable Moravian became not an American." , in the quality of a President, which was now become vacant. , to come over to New England, and illuminate their Colledge and ) could carry it, was indeed agreed withal, by one Mr. "That brave old man, Johannes Amos Commenius, the fame of whose worth has beenĪs far as more than three languages (whereof everyone is indebted unto his It may not be generally known that Comenius was once solicited to become President of Harvard College. This work is, indeed, the first children’s picture book. Line breaks are approximately but not exactly the same as in the original. In the Orbis Pictus text, apparent errors in punctuation and typography (such as Italic type where Roman is expected) were unchanged except in chapter headers, where readers may need the exact format for text searches. Typographical errors are shown in the text with mouse-hover popups When a symbol is used in place of a word, its meaning is shown in a popup: ☉. Most are accompanied by a definition, so the meaning will be plain even if your browser cannot display them. The two sections numbered CIV use astrological symbols. You may also need to change your browser’s default font. First, make sure that the browser’s character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). If any of these characters do not display properly-in particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letter-or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. This text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding: The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at ![]() Produced by Louise Hope, Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ORBIS PICTUS *** With this eBook or online at Title: The Orbis Pictus Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Orbis Pictus, by John Amos Comenius ![]()
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