World in a Box The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia

Name: World in a Box The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia
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ISBN: 9780226322872

ISBN-10: 0226322874

ISBN-13: 9780226322872

Edition: 2002

Authors: Anke te Heesen, Ann M. Hentschel

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The World in a Box, illustrated with images from Stoy's Picture Academy for the Young, offers a glimpse into a time when it was believed that knowledge could be contained and controlled.

Book details

Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: "A Storehouse of the Finest Materials"


Book



The Work and Its Author



From the Manufacture of Books to teh Pedagogical Cabinet


Image



Sources and Structure of the Picture Academy for the Young



Man and His Image in the Eighteenth Century


Box



The Box and Collecting



The Box and Its Uses


Conclusion: The World Boxed In, Then and Now


Appendix: Bibliographic Record of the Picture Academy


Bibliography


Index