The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia by Anke Te Heesen

The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia

Anke Te Heesen with Ann M. Hentschel (Translator)

244 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
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This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the Picture Academy for the Young, a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in eighteenth-century Germany. Children were expecte...

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