The World in a Box
Te Heesen, Anke / Hentschel, Ann M.
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, paste 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 h...
