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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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Horum trium posteriorum Elementorum species ex triplici trium priorum matrimonio generantur; Mercurius siquidem ex Terrae & Aquae mixtione; Sulfur ex Terrae & Aëris amplexu: Sal verò ex aëris & aquae condensatione producitur; nec plures dari possunt eorum combinationes. Ignis Naturae omnibus, tanquam formale principium inest, caelestium virtute influente & cooperante.

English

The kinds of these three later elements are generated from the threefold marriage of the first three. Mercury is produced from the mixture of earth and water; sulphur from the embrace of earth and air; salt from the condensation of air and water. No further combinations of them are possible. Nature’s fire is present in all as a formal principle, through the inflowing and cooperating power of heavenly things.

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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