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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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The 245 Canons · English

Latin

Sexto à creatione, tertio ab ortu Solis die è terra surrexit homo; quo productionis tempore & dierum numero summum mysterium adumbratum est: quemadmodum enim quarto die creationis in unum Solis corpus universum caeli lumen coactum fuit; à tertio autem die nati Solis, qui sextus fuit creationis, terrae limus vitae spiraculum suscepit, & in hominem viventem, Dei imaginem, surrexit: Sic die quarto, millenario videlicet, ab origine mundi Sol increatus, divina scilicet natura infinita & nullis terminis ante comprehensa, humani corporis claustro comprehendi, & quodammodo terminari voluit: Tertio autem die sive millenario; mille anni siquidem coram Deo, sicut dies unus, computantur; post primum Solis illius ortum sive adventum, & circa finem sexti diei, nempe millenarii à creationis tempore, fiet gloriosa humanae naturae resurrectio in secundo supremi iudicis adventu; quod etiam per beatam illius tertiâ die resurrectionem nobis indicatum fuit. Sic arcanam Mundi aetatem & fata sub eius genesi occultavit Propheta.

English

On the sixth day from creation, the third from the sun's birth, the human being arose from the earth. In this time of production and number of days a supreme mystery was foreshadowed. Just as all heaven's light was gathered into one solar body on the fourth day of creation, and on the third day from the sun's birth, which was the sixth of creation, the earth's clay received the breath of life and rose as a living human being, God's image, so on the fourth day—that is, millennium—from the world's origin, the uncreated sun, namely the infinite divine nature previously confined by no bounds, chose to be enclosed within a human body and in a certain way bounded. On the third day or millennium after that sun's first rising or advent—for a thousand years before God are counted as one day—and around the end of the sixth day, or millennium from creation, the glorious resurrection of human nature will occur at the supreme judge's second advent. This was also indicated to us by his blessed resurrection on the third day. Thus the prophet concealed the world's secret age and destinies beneath its genesis.

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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