

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”. Con esta invitación empieza ' Orbis Sensualium Pictus ', publicado originalmente en 1658 en latín y alemán, y -siempre con latín- traducido a al menos 12 idiomas europeos y 7 asiáticos (árabe. 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. PDM Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.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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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. Licensing Public domain Public domain false false Transferred from de.wikipedia to Commons. Deutsch: Comenius: Orbis sensualium pictus. He developed an influential textbook, Orbis Pictus (pictured below), that utilized pictures of familiar objects and parallel columns of the target language and the speaker’s native language as a way to teach the new language, especially vocabulary.
