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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

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Latin

Resurgat Academia, vt nobis insinuet, quomodo prima materia primum contrariorum subiectum esse possit, & qui inter aduersariorum lites & pugnas quiescat amor, seu vehemens ille appetitus, quem in corde eiusdem materiae situm agnouit Academiae * Princeps, vt non minùs illa formam, quam foemina virum concupiscat? Annon hostes illi rerum semina & mixtorum corpora constituentes aeternum pugnando amorem & concordiam expugnabunt?

English

Let the Academy rise again to explain to us how first matter can be the primary subject of contraries, and how love can rest amid the quarrels and battles of adversaries—that love, or vehement appetite, which the Academy’s chief* acknowledged to be situated in the heart of that same matter, so that she desires form no less than a woman desires a man. Will not those enemies, constituting the seeds of things and the bodies of compounds, overthrow love and harmony by fighting forever?

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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