Or, si ce livre n’est qu’un équivalent se la véritable intuition; si, ensuite, le contenu du tout paraît fort défectueux, au point de vue de la science de nos jours; si, enfin, un effort exagéré pour l’intégrité de la conception de l’enfant a créé, pour les choses modernes, trop de dénominations latines qui paraissent douteuses, l’Orbis pictus était pourtant, pour son temps, une oeuvre très originale et très spirituelle, qui fit faire un grand progrès à la pédagogie et servit longtemps de livre d’école utile et de modèle à d’innombrables livres d’images, souvent pires. --HISTOIRE D’ ÉDUCATION, FREDERICK DITTES, Redolfi’s French translation, Paris, 1880, p. 178. Here Comenius wrote, among others, his second celebrated work the “Orbis Pictus.” He was not, however, able to finish it in Hungary for want of a skilful engraver on copper. For such a one he carried it to Michael Endter, the bookseller at Nuremberg, but the engraving delayed the publication of the book for three years more. In 1657 Comenius expressed the hope that it would appear during the next autumn. With what great approbation the work was received at its first appearance, is shown by the fact that within two years, in 1659, Endter had published a second enlarged edition. --KARL VON RAUMER, translated in Barnard’s Journal of Education, v. 260. The “Janua” had an enormous sale, and was published in many languages, but the editions and sale of the “Orbis Pictus” far exceeded those of the “Janua,” and, indeed, for some time it was the most popular text-book in Europe, and deservedly so. --LAURIE’S JOHN AMOS COMENIUS, Boston edition, p. 185. 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. _Gen._ ii. 19, 20. The Lord God brought unto _Adam_ every Beast of the Field, and every Fowl of the Air, to see what he would call them. And _Adam_ gave Names to all Cattle, and to the Fowl of the Air, and to every Beast of the Field. Gen. ii. 19, 20.