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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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Si quae inter rerum principia contrarietas fuit, ea certè inter lucem & tenebras extitit, propter qualitates hinc inde oppositas; verùm qualitates illae vtriusque principij coitu temperamentum receperunt, & ab extremis mediae & temperatae prodierunt, talésque à primis in secunda principia nempe Elementa transierunt.

English

If there was any contrariety among the principles of things, it certainly existed between light and darkness, because their respective qualities were opposed. Yet those qualities received a tempered balance through the union of the two principles; from extremes they emerged intermediate and tempered, and in that condition passed from the first principles into the second principles, namely the elements.

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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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