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The World in a Box - The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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The World in a Box - The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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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 demonstrates, 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 from nature, myth, and biblical
history, were intended to teach children how to collect, store, and
order knowledge. te Heesen compares the "Academy" with other
aspects of Enlightenment material culture, such as commercial
warehouses and natural history cabinets, to show how the kinds of
collecting and ordering practices taught by the "Academy" shaped
both the developing middle class in Germany and Enlightenment
thought. "The World in a Box," illustrated with a multitude of
images of and from Stoy's "Academy," offers a glimpse into a time
when it was believed that knowledge could be contained and
controlled.
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