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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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Universi harmonia in diversâ & graduali materiae informatione consistit; à ponderatâ enim materiae primae & formae suae mixtione fluxit Elementorum, tum etiam Mundi plagarum differentia; quod paucis, sed verissimis verbis indicavit Hermes, dum id, quod est superius, simile ei quod est inferius, dixit; superiora enim & inferiora ex eâdem materiâ & formâ condita sunt, sed ratione mixtionis, situs & perfectionis differunt, circa quae partium Mundi distinctio, & universae Naturae latitudo versatur.

English

The universe's harmony consists in the varied and graduated formation of matter. The differences between the elements, and also between the world's regions, flowed from the proportioned mixture of first matter and its form. Hermes indicated this in few but most truthful words when he said that what is above is like what is below. For higher and lower things were made from the same matter and form but differ in their mixture, position and perfection; upon these turn the distinction of the world's parts and the whole range of nature.

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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