The Summary of Physics Restored

Name: The Summary of Physics Restored
Author: Attributed to Jean d’Espagnet

A Fresh English Translation from the Complete 1653 Latin Enchiridion

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The 245 Canons · Latin

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Rixam & litigium à formâ in materiam effluxisse post vnionem quatuor illarum qualitatum in materia informata quis sanus suspicabitur? cùm sit ex essentia & intentione formae materiam perficere, eamque in harmoniam, concentum & temperamentum pro viribus perfectum componere.

English

What sane person would suspect that quarrelling and strife flowed from form into matter after those four qualities were united in formed matter? For it belongs to the essence and purpose of form to perfect matter and compose it into harmony, concord and a temperament as perfect as its powers allow.

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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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