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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Extrema tantùm inter se contraria sunt propter qualitatum oppositarum intensionem; quae autem ab extremorum mixtione orta sunt, nequaquam inter se aduersantur, quia media sunt: propterea elementa Naturae minimè contraria habenda, quia sunt media, & à duorum extremorum, lucis nempe & tenebrarum vnione & temperamento effluxa.

English

Only extremes are contrary to one another, because of the intensity of their opposed qualities. Things arising from the mixture of extremes do not oppose one another at all, because they are intermediate. Therefore, Nature’s elements should by no means be regarded as contraries: they are intermediate and have flowed from the union and tempering of the two extremes, light and darkness.

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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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