Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus: : hoc est, Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura.

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by  Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670

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O H. Am OS C O MME N
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Orbis Senlualium Pidus
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Omniura priocipaliiim in Mundo Re-
rum, Sc'iti vita Adtionum,
PiCTUKA NoMENCLATUPvA.
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Nomenclature^ and TtBures
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The chief things that are in theWorld,
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. and ofMeas Employments therein ,
In above an 150 Copper- Cuts.
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being one of his la(t Gffays% and the moR
fuitable to Childrens Capacities of any that
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2- 19. 20.
The Lord God brought unto Adam every
Beaft of the Field, and every Fowl of the Air,
to feewhat he would call them. And Adam
gave Names to all Cattel, and to the Fowl of
theAir, and toevery Beaft ofthe Field,
Gen. 2. 19,20.
Adduxh T^ominm Dcm ad Adam cun^fa
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mAnimantia Terrs , univerfa volatilia Qceli^
videret quomodo vocaret ilia. - Apellavltque
Adam
'Nomin'ihusfuk cun[iaAnimantia^dfuni-
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verfa volatilia QocH^ omnes Befiias Agri,
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Be Author's ?KEFACE to the Reader^
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rKflru&ion is the means to expel ?denefi^
with which young Wits ought to be well
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iirbifhed inSchools: But fo, asthattheTeach-
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ng be I. True^ 2. E^//, %, Clear and 4. Solid.
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1. It will h^true^ if nothing be taught but \
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iich as are beneficial to ones life-, left there be
caufe of complaining afterwards. We know
fot neceflary things, becaufe we have not lear-
led things neceflary.
2. It will be/at//, ifthe mindbe polifhed for
A^ifdom, the Tongue for Eloquence, and the
^ands for a neat way of Hving. This will be
hat Grace ofones Life, to be wife^ to ad^ to
''peak,
^.4. ItwillbecZf^r, andbythatfirniand/^//^,
fwhateveris taughtand learned, benotobfcure,
)r confufed, but apparent, diftinS, and articu-
ate, as theFingers on the Hands.
The ground ofthis bufinefs, is, thitfenfual
^bjeHs be rightly prefented tothefenf%es^ forfear
hey may not bereceived. I fay, and it again
iloud, that this laft ^s the foundation ofall the
eft: becaufewecan neither ad nor/peakwifely^
mlefs wefirjl rightly underjUnd all the things
vhicharetobedone^ andwhereofvoeareto/peak.
Now
thereis nothing intheVnderftanding which
wa4f not^ bejore in the Senfe. And therefore
to exercifetheSenfeswellabouttherightpercei-
ving the differences ofthings^ will be tolay the
gro:4ndsfor all wifdo^, anAd2all wife difcour^fer,W, ^
PREFACE. :
the
a/jil all d'lfcreet anions in ones courfe of life.
Which, becaufe it is commonly negleaed in
Sehools, and the things that are to be learned
areoffered to Scholars,without beingunderftood .
or being rightly prefented to^ the fenfes, it eo-
itiedi to pafs, that the work of teachirig and
learning goeth heavily onward, and affordcth
litSteleebheenreefitt.hen'anew helpforSchool' s, A Yi-Urrure
and 'Nomenclature of all the chiefthings in the
Worlds andofMensanionsin theirw.iyofliving
Which, thatyou, goodMatters may not beloth
to run over with your Scholars, I will tell you
in fliort, what good you may expeft from it.
It Is a little Book, asyou fee, of no greatbulk,
yet a brief of the whole World, and a whole
language fullof?iUures, Nomenclatures, and
:
Dejcriptions of things.
The Figures are the Reprefentaticnsot all
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viaie things, (to-whichalfothings invifible are
reduced after their falliion) ofthe whole world.
And that in that very order ofthings, in'which
rhey are difcribed in the Jamia LatinaLingua
and with that fulnefs that nothing very necef-
fary or ofgreat concernment is omitted.
ir. T/;^ A'^w^/7rA/r//;Ti-aretheInfcri^ptions, or
Titles fet everyone overtheirown Pictures, ex-
prefTing thewhole thingbv itsown general term.^
The Defcnptions are the Explications ot
III.
die Parts ofthe Piftiire, fo expreffed by their
own properterms, as that fame Figure whicliis
added to -every piece of the Pifture, and the
rcrm of^it, always fneweth what thingsbelong-
•-ih one to another.