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![]() Timothy Griffith is a fellow of Classical Languages at New Saint Andrews College, and he is the director of the Latin Phaedrus Composition Contest. He lays out the categories of souls for his young students: the “Vegetative” soul of plants, the “Sensitive” soul of animals, and the “Rational” soul of man. The Orbis Pictus series helps students pick up vocabulary in the best ways possible: It introduces words topically, which aids the memory. Despite this illustration, Comenius’ discussion of the soul is not dumbed down for children. Although spiritual matters received due attention in Comenius’s pictured world, his most famous book gave pride of place to worldly mattersgeography, weather, plants, animals, and machinery, among. Timothy Griffith Format: Paperback Brand Name: Canon Press Weight: 0.65 (lbs. This includes not only vocabulary that appears frequently in Latin literature, but also words that have been adopted as technical terms in various scientific disciplines (especially biology). He recognized the impact of illustration on children’s understanding and believed that learning should build outward from the familiar. Orbis Pictus: Natural World Listing in the Childrens Picture Books & Early. But amid instruction on the corporeal and familiar, Comenius again injects the abstract and invisible into his picture book with Chapter 43, a discussion of “The Soul of Man.” A dotted outline of a human, opening his arms as if to welcome the students’ gaze, stands at the top of the page. This first volume in the Orbis Pictus series, The Natural World, covers almost five hundred words on the natural world. 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