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xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Note |
This work was originally published as "Der Weltkasten : die Geschichte einer Bildenzyklopädia aus dem 18. Jahrhundert" published by Wallstein Verlag, 1997. |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Oldenburg, 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-226) and index. |
| Summary |
"This is a story 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 expected to cut out the pictures from the Academy, paste them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments - the whole world filed in a box of images."--Page 4 of cover. |
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Introduction: "A Storehouse of the Finest Materials" -- 1. The Work and Its Author -- 2. From the Manufacture of Books to the Pedagogical Cabinet -- 3. Sources and Structure of the Picture Academy for the Young -- 4. Man and His Image in the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Box and Collecting -- 6. The Box and Its Uses -- Conclusion: The World Boxed In, Then and Now -- App. Bibliographic Record of the Picture Academy. |
| Language |
Translation of: Weltkasten. |
| Subject(s) |
Stoy, Johann Siegmund, -1808. Bilder-Akademie für die Jugend.
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Weltkasten -- History.
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Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries, German -- History and criticism.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries, German -- History and criticism.
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Picture dictionaries, German -- History.
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Material culture -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
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Visual communication -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Enlightenment -- Germany.
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| Alternate Author |
Hentschel, Ann translator.
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