2025 / Sources and documentsSources and documentsПБПOrbis Pictus: How a Seventeenth-Century European Textbook Introduced Noble Youth to Brewing
In 1658, Jan Amos Comenius published Orbis Sensualium Pictus, a famous illustrated textbook that included a chapter on brewing. This article examines how the book circulated in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, what its brewery illustration actually showed, and why an alembic appeared alongside the brewing equipment.
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