Old-time schools and school-books . The only copies I have seen have been revisions ofthe original, yet the one I own, dated 1766, statesthat the unrevised is still printed and for sale. Theauthor of the work died in 1523, and one wouldthink that in the two centuries and a half since thebook first appeared it would have been entirely sup-planted. A more attractive book to the Latin boys wasJohn Amos Comeniuss Visible World which waspublished in 1658. Aside from ABC primers, thiswas the first illustrated school-book ever , born in 1592, was a Moravian bishop,and the most disting
Old-time schools and school-books . The only copies I have seen have been revisions ofthe original, yet the one I own, dated 1766, statesthat the unrevised is still printed and for sale. Theauthor of the work died in 1523, and one wouldthink that in the two centuries and a half since thebook first appeared it would have been entirely sup-planted. A more attractive book to the Latin boys wasJohn Amos Comeniuss Visible World which waspublished in 1658. Aside from ABC primers, thiswas the first illustrated school-book ever , born in 1592, was a Moravian bishop,and the most distinguished educational reformer ofhis time. He wrote a number of books, but theone that attained the widest circulation was this Vijible World: ox a Nomenclature, and Pictures of allthe chief things that are in the World, and of MensEmployments therein; in above an 150 CopperCuts. Every subject treated had its picture, andbelow the engraving was a medley of explanatorylittle sentences in two columns, one column in Latin. Beg innings 17.
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