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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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Materiam primam post susceptam à luce informationem, & rerum distinctionem, totam extra se migrasse, ac in Elementa & ex illis conflata transmissam, totamque in opere Universi perficiendo exhaustam fuisse credendum est; ita ut iam manifestatis, & in lucem editis, quae prius in illâ occultabantur, coeperit tota in ipsis occultari, nec ab ipsis separatam dari posse fatendum est.

English

We must believe that after receiving form from light and after the distinction of things, first matter passed wholly beyond itself, was transferred into the elements and the things compounded from them, and was entirely expended in completing the work of the universe. Thus, once the things formerly hidden within it were manifested and brought into light, it began to be hidden wholly within them; we must admit that it cannot exist separately from them.

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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