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Early Modern · 1658
The World in Pictures
Orbis Sensualium Pictus
Jan Amos Comenius · 1592–1670
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What it is
A picture book teaching Latin and the world together, with numbered images of trades, animals, and the soul, each keyed to a numbered phrase.
Why it lasted
The first illustrated children's textbook, in print for two hundred years and the ancestor of every picture book since.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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