Johann Amos Comenius, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659)

Full Text
Not available
EEBO/TCP
Not available
Date
1659
Author
Translator
Book title
Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus, Hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in Mundo Rerum, & in vitâ Actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible World, Or, A Picture and Nomenclature of all the chief Things that are in the world, and of Mens Employments therein. A Work newly written by the Author in Latine, and High-Dutch (being one of his last Essays, and the most suitable to Childrens capacities of any that he hath hitherto made)
Publication place
London
Publisher
J. Kirton
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Latin
Summary
Parallel columns of English and Latin words and phrases
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Sand 1. and Gravel 2. is Stone broken into bits. Arena 1. & Sabulum 2. est comminutus Lapis. (p. 26)
Wing
C 5523
Other editions
Cf. Nomenclatura Vestibularis. Or, a further improvement of the reverend and learned Johannes-Amos-Comenius, his Vestibulum, linguæ Latinæ, fitted to his excellent design of learning words and things together, of which only a title page survives (1662; Wing N1222a; Alston XV.243)
Facsimiles
Comenius, Johann Amos. Orbis Sensualium Pictus, 1659. Translated by Charles Hoole . Trans. Charles Hoole. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 222 . Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record
Comenius, Johann Amos. Orbis Pictus. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. view record