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The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia
Anke Te Heesen
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Description for The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia
Paperback. The picture encyclopedia in question was a popular work invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in 18th century Germany. This study of an individual object provides an unusual perspective on the German bourgeois enlightenment Translator(s): Hentschel, Ann M. Num Pages: 232 pages, 48 halftones, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; GBA; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
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 expected to cut out the pictures from the Academy, glue them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments - the whole world filed in a box of images. As Anke te Heesen deminstrates, Stoy and his world in a box epitomized the Enlightenment concern with the creation and maintenance of an appropriate moral, intellectual, and social order. The box, and its images ... Read more
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 expected to cut out the pictures from the Academy, glue them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments - the whole world filed in a box of images. As Anke te Heesen deminstrates, Stoy and his world in a box epitomized the Enlightenment concern with the creation and maintenance of an appropriate moral, intellectual, and social order. The box, and its images ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226322872
SKU
V9780226322872
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Ref
99-1
About Anke Te Heesen
Anke te Heesen is a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, Germany. She is coeditor of Sammeln als Wissen: Das Sammeln und seine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Bedeutung.
Reviews for The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia
"This is a truly magnificent book - the most impressive histoire totale of an object that I have read. te Heesen provides a fascinating series of perspectives on the German bourgeois Enlightenment through minute study of the production, physical make-up, marketing, reviewing, and educational uses of Stoy's world in a box." - Nicholas Jardine, University of Cambridge