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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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Aquae inferiores bifariam divisae distinctas regiones occupant, pars enim earum Terrae contigua ei tanquam basi propriae insidet, & cum eâ unicum globum constituit; altera pars sursum evolans per aëris vicini plagam vago motu peregrinatur, ibique larvatas corporum imagines, multiplicesque phantasmatum figuras sibi fingens pendula huc illuc errat.

English

The lower waters, divided into two, occupy distinct regions. One part, adjoining earth, rests upon it as its proper base and forms a single globe with it. The other flies upwards and travels with wandering motion through the neighbouring tract of air. There, fashioning for itself masked images of bodies and manifold phantom shapes, it hangs suspended and roams here and there.

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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