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Step into the pages of history with Johann Amos Comenius’s The Orbis Pictus, hailed as the first children’s picture book. Published in 1658, this groundbreaking work introduced a novel approach to education by combining detailed illustrations with bilingual text, facilitating language learning and comprehension. Each of the 240 chapters presents an aspect of the natural or human-made world, accompanied by woodcut illustrations and descriptive text in both Latin and the vernacular. This method not only made learning more engaging for children but also laid the foundation for modern visual-based education. The Orbis Pictus remains a testament to Comenius’s visionary ideas and continues to be a valuable resource for educators and historians alike. ?


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