The Orbis Pictus

by Johann Amos Comenius

See note on [chapter numbering]. Chapter numbers for The Invitation (1) and The Close (151) were missing. Chapter references 64–104 were off by one (printed as 63–103) and have been silently corrected. Only those with additional errors are individually marked. Minor differences in spelling and hyphenization are not marked.

Chap.	[A.]	Page.
[37]	The Seven Ages of Man	44
[6]	The Air	10
[33]	Amphibious Creatures	40
[105]	The Apparitions of the Moon	130
[141]	The Army and the Fight	178
[ [!-- printed 99 --]100]	Arts belonging to Speech	121
[ 104]	The Aspects of the Planets	129
	[B.]
[ [!-- printed 74 --]75]	The Bath	91
[ [!-- printed 75 --]76]	The Barbers Shop	93
[28]	Labouring Beasts	34
[30]	Wild Beasts	36
[143]	The Besieging of a City	181
[19]	Birds	24
[22]	Birds that live in the Fields and Woods	28
[23]	Ravenous Birds	29
[21]	Singing Birds	27
[41]	The Chanels and Bones	50
[ [!-- printed 96 --]97]	A Book	118
[ [!-- printed 95 --]96]	The Book-binder	117
[ [!-- printed 94 --]95]	The Book-sellers Shop	116
[ [!-- printed 69 --]70]	The Box-maker	86
[136]	Boys Sports	172
[50]	Bread-baking	63
[57]	Brewing	71
[129]	A Burial	165
[54]	Butchery	67
	[C.]
[ 104]	The Celestial Sphere	127
[140]	The Camp	177
[ [!-- printed 84 --]85]	Carriages	103
[ [!-- printed 85 --]86]	Carrying to and fro	105
[ [!-- printed 63 --]64]	The Carpenter	79
[27]	Herd-Cattle	33
[29]	Wild-Cattle	35
[41]	The Chanels and Bones	50
[147]	Christianity	187
[123]	A City	154
[143]	The Besieging of a City	181
[123]	The Inward parts of a City	156
[151]	The Close	194
[8]	The Clouds	12
[119]	The Tree of Consanguinity	150
[ [!-- printed 55 --]56]	Cookery	68
[ [!-- printed 80 --]81]	The Cooper	98
[ [!-- printed 81 --]82]	The Cord-wainer	99
[17]	Corn	22
[32]	Crawling Vermin	38
[33]	Creatures that live as well by water as by land	40
[31]	Creeping things	37
	[D.]
[44]	Deformed and monstrous People	55
[ [!-- printed 77 --]78]	Dials	95
[134]	Dice-play	170
[111]	Diligence	139
[45]	The Dressing of Gardens	56
	[E.]
[9]	The Earth	13
[106]	The Eclipses	131
[ [!-- printed 65 --]66]	Engines	81
[108]	Europe	134
	[F.]
[58]	A Feast	72
[132]	The Fencing-School	168
[5]	Fire	8
[51]	Fishing	64
[34]	River-fish and Pond-fish	41
[35]	Sea-fish and Shell-fish	43
[40]	The Flesh and Bowels	49
[15]	Flowers	20
[25]	Flying Vermin	31
[113]	Fortitude	141
[26]	Four footed Beasts about the House	32
[52]	Fowling	65
[20]	Tame-Fowl	25
[24]	Water-Fowl	30
[10]	The Fruits of the Earth	14
[14]	Fruits of Trees	18
	[G.]
[ [!-- printed 88 --]89]	A Galley	108
[145]	Gentilism	184
[ [!-- printed 102 --]103]	Geometry	126
[2]	God	5
[149]	God’s Providence	191
[47]	Grasing	59
[49]	Grinding	62
	[H.]
[39]	The Head and the Hands	47
[16]	Pot-herbs	21
[27]	Herd-Cattle	33
[4]	Heaven	7
[48]	The making of Honey	61
[ [!-- printed 83 --]84]	The Horseman	102
[ [!-- printed 66 --]67]	A House	82
[ [!-- printed 71 --]72]	The parts of a House	88
[115]	Humanity	144
[53]	Hunting	66
[46]	Husbandry	58
	[I.]
[1]	The Invitation	1
[ [!-- printed 100 --]101]	Musical Instruments	123
[146]	Judaism	186
[124]	Judgment	157
[150]	The last Judgment	193
[116]	Justice	145
	[K.]
[137]	The Kingdom and Region	173
	[L.]
[28]	Labouring Beasts	34
[117]	Liberality	147
[19]	Living Creatures	24
[59]	The dressing of Line	74
[61]	Linen Cloaths	76
[ [!-- printed 79 --]80]	Looking-glasses	97
	[M.]
[148]	Mahometism	190
[138]	Kingly Majesty	174
[36]	Man	43
[37]	The Seven Ages of Man	44
[38]	The outward parts of a Man	45
[ [!-- printed 64 --]65]	The Mason	80
[127]	Measures and Weights	162
[126]	Merchandizing	161
[ [!-- printed 89 --]90]	A Merchant Ship	109
[11]	Metals	15
[ [!-- printed 67 --]68]	A Mine	84
[105]	The Apparitions of the Moon	137
[109]	Moral Philosophy	136
[ [!-- printed 100 --]101]	Musical Inst’ments	123
	[P.]
[ [!-- printed 92 --]93]	Paper	113
[ 87]	Passage over Waters	106
[114]	Patience	142
[ [!-- printed 101 --]102]	Philosophy	125
[109]	Moral Philosophy	136
[128]	Physick	163
[ [!-- printed 78 --]79]	The Picture	96
[34]	Pond-fish	41
[16]	Pot-herbs	21
[ [!-- printed 70 --]71]	The Potter	87
[ [!-- printed 93 --]94]	Printing	114
[149]	God’s Providence	191
[110]	Prudence	137
	[R.]
[135]	Races	171
[23]	Ravenous Birds	29
[144]	Religion	183
[34]	River-fish	41
[ [!-- printed 81 --]82]	The Roper	99
[138]	Regal Majesty	174
	[S.]
[ [!-- printed 97 --]98]	A School	119
[142]	The Sea-fight	180
[35]	Sea-fish and Shell-fish	42
[42]	The outward and inward Senses	52
[31]	Serpents	37
[ [!-- printed 90 --]91]	Shipwreck	111
[63]	The Shoe-maker	78
[18]	Shrubs	23
[21]	Singing Birds	27
[ 131]	Sleights	167
[118]	The Society betwixt Man and Wife	148
[120]	The Society betwixt Parents and Children	152
[121]	The Society betwixt Master and Servant	153
[43]	The Soul of Man	54
[139]	The Souldier	176
[ [!-- printed 68 --]69]	The Black-smith	85
[136]	Boys Sports	172
[ [!-- printed 103 --]104]	The Celestial Sphere	127
[107]	The Terrestial Sphere	132
[ [!-- printed 99 --]100]	Arts belonging to Speech	121
[ [!-- printed 76 --]77]	The Stable	94
[130]	A Stage-play	166
[12]	Stones	16
[ [!-- printed 72 --]73]	The Stove with the Bed-room	89
[ [!-- printed 98 --]99]	The Study	120
[ [!-- printed 87 --]88]	Swimming	107
	[T.]
[62]	The Taylor	77
[ 112]	Temperance	140
[133]	Tennis play	169
[107]	The Terrestial Sphere	132
[125]	The Torments of Malefactors	159
[ [!-- printed 82 --]83]	The Travellor	100
[13]	A Tree	17
[ [!-- printed 69 --]70]	The Turner	86
	[U.]
[25]	Flying Vermin	31
[32]	Crawling Vermin	38
[56]	The Vintage	70
	[W.]
[7]	The Water	11
[60]	Weaving	75
[ [!-- printed 73 --]74]	Wells	90
[29]	Wild Cattle	35
[30]	Wild Beasts	36
[3]	The World	6
[ [!-- printed 91 --]92]	Writing	112

Trinuni Deo Gloria.

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FINIS.

[ Original Title Page]

Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus: HOC EST Omnium principalium in Mundo Rerum, & in Vita Actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Comenius’s VISIBLE WORLD: OR, A Nomenclature, and Pictures OF ALL THE Chief Things that are in the World, and of Mens Employments therein; In above 150 Copper Cuts. WRITTEN By the Author in Latin and High Dutch, being one of his last Essays; and the most suitable to Childrens Capacity of any he hath hitherto made. Translated into English By Charles Hoole, M.A. For the Use of Young Latin Scholars. The Eleventh Edition Corrected, and the English made to answer Word for Word to the Latin. Nihil est in intellectu, quod non prius fuit in sensu. Arist. London; Printed for, and sold by John and Benj. Sprint, at the Bell in Little Britain, 1728.

Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus: HOC EST Omnium principalium in Mundo Rerum, & in Vita Actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura.

Joh. Amos Comenius’s VISIBLE WORLD: OR, A Nomenclature, and Pictures OF ALL THE Chief Things that are in the World, and of Mens Employments therein; In above 150 Copper Cuts. WRITTEN By the Author in Latin and High Dutch, being one of his last Essays; and the most suitable to Childrens Capacity of any he hath hitherto made.

Translated into English By Charles Hoole, M.A. For the Use of Young Latin Scholars.

The Eleventh Edition Corrected, and the English made to answer Word for Word to the Latin.

Nihil est in intellectu, quod non prius fuit in sensu. Arist.

London; Printed for, and sold by John and Benj. Sprint, at the Bell in Little Britain, 1728.

[Additional Notes]

Editor’s Preface:

The text for the English translation is from the English edition of 1727, in which for the first time the English words were so arranged as to stand opposite their Latin equivalents.