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table of contents for Library CATALOG
- LIB. CAT. NO. BURT1621
excerpts from The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
by Robert Burton
- LIB. CAT. NO. CHAMB1728a
encyclopedia articles on “Design” and “Designing” (1728, 1783–6)
by Ephraim Chambers, supplemented by Abraham Rees
- LIB. CAT. NO. CHAMB1728b
encyclopedia article on “Antipodes” (1728)
by Ephraim Chambers
- LIB. CAT. NO. COWL1667
poem To the Royal Society (1667)
by Abraham Cowley
- LIB. CAT. NO. DC1980
Information packet on D-Charts (ca. 1980)
including 2 articles by Kim Harris
- LIB. CAT. NO. DTB1985
Women as Audience and Author of Scientific Discourse: A Study of Early English Popularization Literature (1985)
by Deborah Taylor Bazeley
- LIB. CAT. NO. DTB1990
An Early Challenge to the Precepts and Practice of Modern Science: The Fusion of Fact, Fiction, and Feminism in the Works of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673) (1990)
by Deborah Taylor Bazeley
- LIB. CAT. NO. DTP2000
The Growth of Science (2000)
by Deborah Taylor-Pearce
- LIB. CAT. NO. DTP2003
Time, Soul, Memory (2003)
by Deborah Taylor-Pearce
- LIB. CAT. NO. FLECK1656
Letters XXIII and XXIV from A Relation of Ten Years Travells in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America (1656)
by Richard Flecknoe
- LIB. CAT. NO. JMT2001
encyclopedia article on Casuistry (2001)
by James M. Tallmon
- LIB. CAT. NO. JUA1691
Excerpt from Respuesta de la poetisa a la muy ilustre Sor Filotea de la Cruz (1691)
by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (aka Juana Ramírez de Asbaje)
- LIB. CAT. NO. MAG1610
Report to the Spanish council of state “touching Virginia” (21 June 1610)
by Francis Maguel
- LIB. CAT. NO. MWE1980
“The Geometry of the Mind” (1980)
by Michael W. Evans
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author index
BURTON, ROBERT
• excerpts from Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) regarding the psychological well-being associated with a hands-on practice of the arts & sciences
• excerpts from Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) regarding women’s practice of arts & sciences, including his own mother’s
CHAMBERS, EPHRAIM
• article on “Antipodes” from Cyclopædia (1728)
• articles on “Design” and “Designing” from Cyclopædia (1728, 1783–6)
COWLEY, ABRAHAM
• “To the Royal Society” (1667)
EVANS, MICHAEL
• “The Geometry of the Mind” (1980)
FLECKNOE, RICHARD
• Letters describing his 1648–50 travels in Brazil (1656)
HARRIS, KIM
• 2 articles on D-charts (late-1970s)
HOOKE, ROBERT
• Lecture explicating the memory, and how we come by the notion of time (1682)
JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ,
SOR
• “Philosophies of the kitchen” from Response to the most illustrious poetess sor Filotea de la Cruz (1691)
MAGUEL, FRANCIS
• Report to the Spanish council of state “touching Virginia” (1610)
TALLMON, JAMES
• encyclopedia article on Casuistry (2001)
TAYLOR-PEARCE,
DEBORAH
• Women as audience and author of scientific discourse: A study of early English popularization literature (1985)
• An early challenge to the precepts and practice of modern science: The fusion of fact, fiction, and feminism in the works of Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle, 1623–1673 (1990)
• The Growth of Science (2000)
• Time, Soul, Memory (2003)
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BELOW: 2-page spread on “The Booksellers Shop,” showing a 17th-century library (callout 6).
From the first illustrated children’s primer, Orbis sensualium pictus. Hoc est, omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum & in vitâ actionum pictura & nomenclatura, by the great pansophist and Czech educational reformer, Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670).
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First published at Nuremberg in 1658, by the bookseller Michael Endter, Comenius’ bilingual (Latin and German) Orbis Pictus pioneered the pictorial method of language teaching. Widely translated, it quickly became the most popular textbook in Europe, and was used to instruct girls as well as boys.
In those portions of Germany where the schools had been broken up by the “Thirty years’ war” [1618–1648], mothers taught their children from its pages. Corrected and amended by later editors, it continued for nearly two hundred years, to be a textbook of the German schools.
— History and Progress of Education,
by Philobiblius (New York, 1860), p. 210
The first English translation of Orbis Sensualium Pictus, by Charles Hoole, was published in 1659 (see right-side rollover for above graphic). The layout of the English-Latin gloss was updated in the early 18th century, although the copper-plate illustration remained unchanged. To view an enlarged facsimile of the updated page on “The Booksellers Shop” from the English edition of 1727, click here. This was the first translation in which the English words are arranged directly opposite their Latin equivalents.
To view an enlarged facsimile of the original (printed 1658) 2-page spread on “Der Buchladen” shown above, click here for the verso page 192 and click here for the recto page 193.
To view 17th-century pictures of female booksellers, click here for the related Gallery exhibit.
For more on Comenius, including additional spreads from Hoole’s translation of the Orbis Sensualium Pictus, click here for the related Gallery exhibit.