Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.

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Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
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London :: Printed for J. Kirton ...,
1659.
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Latin language -- Readers.
Natural history -- Juvenile literature.
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"Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34111.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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LII. (Book 52)

[illustration]
52

Aucupium.

Auceps 1. exstruit Aream, 2. superstruit illi Rete aucupatorium, 3. obsipat Escam, 4. &, abdens se in latibulum 5. allicit aves,

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Cantu Illicum, qui partim in areâ currunt, 6. parrim Caveis inclusi sunt; 7. atque ita reti obruit tranfvolantes aves, dum se demittunt:

aut tendit Tendiculas, 8. quibus seipsas suspendunt & suffocant;

aut exponit viscatos calaemos 9. Amiti, 10. quibus si insident, implicant Pennas, ut nequeant avolare, & decidunt in terram:

aut captat

Perticâ, 11. vel Decipulâ. 12.

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Fowling.

The Fowler 1. maketh a bed, 2. spreadeth a Bird-net. 3. throweth bait 4. upon it, & hiding him∣self in a Hut 5. he allureth Birds,

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y the chirping of ure-birds, which part∣op upon the bed, 6. and are partly shut in Cages, 7. and thus he ntangleth Birds that fly over, in his Net, whil'st they settle themselves down;

or he setteth Snares, 8. on which they hang, and strangle themselves;

or he setteth ime-Twigs. 9. on a Perch, 10. upon which if they sit, they enwrap their Feathers, that they cannot fly away, and fall down to the ground;

or he catcheth them with a Pole. and a Pit-fall. 12.

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