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The picture encyclopaedia in question was a popular work invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in 18th century Germany. This study of individual objects provides an unusual perspective on the German bourgeois enlightenment

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"This is a truly magnificent book - the most impressive histoire totale of an object that I have read. te Heesen provides a fascinating series of perspectives on the German bourgeois Enlightenment through minute study of the production, physical make-up, marketing, reviewing, and educational uses of Stoy's world in a box." - Nicholas Jardine, University of Cambridge

The World in a Box

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    A Hardback by Anke te Heesen, Ann M. Hentschel

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 May 2002
      ISBN-13 9780226322865
      978-0226322865
      ISBN-10 0226322866
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      Book Synopsis
      The picture encyclopaedia in question was a popular work invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in 18th century Germany. This study of individual objects provides an unusual perspective on the German bourgeois enlightenment

      Trade Review
      "This is a truly magnificent book - the most impressive histoire totale of an object that I have read. te Heesen provides a fascinating series of perspectives on the German bourgeois Enlightenment through minute study of the production, physical make-up, marketing, reviewing, and educational uses of Stoy's world in a box." - Nicholas Jardine, University of Cambridge

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