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Attributed to Jean d’Espagnet

The Summary of Physics Restored

A Fresh English Translation from the Complete 1653 Latin Enchiridion

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Ab illo vniuersali Naturae principio calor omnis insitus tam in Elementa, quam mixta defluit, qui Ignis nomen meruit; vbicunque enim calor spontaneus, motus naturalis, aut vita hospitatur, ibi suum Ignem tanquam eorum principium, & primum Elementorum motorem occultauit Natura; à quo elementa etiam sensibilia, seu Mundi nostri prouinciae elementantur, & velut animantur, arctiùs tamen terrae vtero constrictus propter eius densitatem & frigiditatem antiperistasim excitantem inhaeret.

English

From that universal principle of Nature flows all the heat implanted both in the Elements and in compounds, which has earned the name Fire. For wherever spontaneous heat, natural motion or life dwells, Nature has hidden her Fire as their principle and the first mover of the Elements. From it even the perceptible elements, or provinces of our World, are constituted as elements and, as it were, given life. Yet this fire remains more closely confined in the womb of the earth because of its density and its coldness, which arouses antiperistasis.

About This Reading Edition

The complete 1653 Enchiridion physicae restitutae, conventionally attributed to Jean d’Espagnet, with Latin and a fresh English translation, all 245 canons, the title and maxim, address to students, epigram, original marginalia, 140 modern annotations and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Anonymous, Enchiridion physicae restitutae. Geneva: Jean-Antoine and Samuel de Tournes, 1653. ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Rar 4790; digitised by e-rara, doi:10.3931/e-rara-21407. Conventionally attributed to Jean d’Espagnet; the original title page is anonymous.

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