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te Heesen Ake ; Hentschel Ann M. (trad.)The world in a box : the story of an eighteenth-century picture encyclopediaChicago (Ill.) ; London : University of Chicago press, 2002, 1 vol. (XII-237 p.).ISBN 0-226-32287-4Résumé :This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the Picture academy for the young, a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in eighteenth-century Germany. Children were expected to cut out the pictures from the Academy, paste them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments - the whole world filed in a box of images.As Anke to Heesen demonstrates, Stoy and his world in a box epitomized the enlightenment concern with creating and maintaining an appropriate moral intellectual, and social order. The box, and its images from nature, myth, and biblical history, were intented to teach children how to collect, store, and order knowledge. Te Heesen compares the Academy with other aspects of enlightenment culture, such as commercial warehouses and natural history cabinets, to show how the kinds of collecting and ordering practices taught by the Academy shaped both enlightenment thought an the developing middle class in Germany. The world in a box, illustrated with a multitude of images of and from Stoy’s Academy, offers a glimpse into a time when it was believed that know could be contained and controlled.Anke te Heesen is a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for the history of science in berlin. She is coeditor of Sammeln als Wissen : das sammeln und seine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche bedeutung.Axe de recherches :Axe transversal : Cultures visuelles