DARE LA PAROLA ALL'IMMAGINE: L'ORBIS SENSUALIUM PICTUS DI JAN AMOS COMENIUS

The Orbis sensualium pictus (1658) by the Czech philosopher and educationalist Jan Amos Komenský, most commonly referred to with his Latin name Comenius (1592-1670), is the first illustrated school textbook. It is the end result of a lengthy and articulated philosophical and linguistic reflection, a...

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Published in:Nuovi annali della Scuola speciale per archivisti e bibliotecari 2017-01, Vol.31, p.117-140
Main Author: Crupi, Gianfranco
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Subjects:
17th century
Comenius, John Amos (1592-1670)
Educational philosophy
Encyclopedias
Illustrations
Semiotics
Sensory perception
Teaching methods
Textbooks
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Summary:The Orbis sensualium pictus (1658) by the Czech philosopher and educationalist Jan Amos Komenský, most commonly referred to with his Latin name Comenius (1592-1670), is the first illustrated school textbook. It is the end result of a lengthy and articulated philosophical and linguistic reflection, and it's conceived by its author as a small encyclopedia of basic knowledge of the world where pictures function as a learning aid by virtue of their logical pairing with words. The image in the Orbis is not servile to the text, but rather acts in a complementary and integrated semiotic system and becoming in Comenius' vision, a revolutionary, ludic, didactic instrument to help children learn about the world through «lusum & iocum» i.e., enjoyable passtime and play. The paper recontructs, in the light of Comenius' complex body of treatises, the process of philosophical thought that led him to elaborate the concept of «visible» and reflects upon the role of the intellect in the elaboration of information acquisition through sensory perception.
ISSN:1122-0775
2037-6073