About a 17th century board game of a nobleman from Krain and his teacher, and about geography, without which great deeds are silent and history blind
Keywords:
board games, social games, educational games, pedagogy, education, history of games, game theory, geography, history of geography, cartography, toponymy, compass, history of astronomy, Jesuits, Auersperg (family), proverbs, Latin languageAbstract
This is part two of the article, which follows part one published in the preceding issue of Kronika, about a 17th century board-game designed to be an entertaining geographical learning tool. The game, described in the book entitled Orbis lusus seu lusus geographicus (A game of the world or geographical game) was publicly presented at Graz University in 1659 by an 18-year old student from Ljubljana and his 28-year old professor from Verona. It was based on a world map divided into 1,680 fields, which the players occupied with chess-like pieces pursuant to complex rules. While the first part of the article addressed the reasoning behind the game and the circumstances in which the book was written, this second part discusses the game, the map, instruments for the game, chess-like pieces and the rules of the game.
