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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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Circulationem volatilis Elementi triplici actione & veluti instrumento adimplet Natura, nempe Sublimatione, Demissione, siue Refusione & Decoctione, quae diuerso indigent temperamento. Sic benè ordinata Naturae intentio per varios errans motus opera sua interrupta ad finem propositum dirigit, & per vias oppositas ad eundem scopum tendit.

English

Nature completes the circulation of the volatile element through a threefold action, as though through three instruments: sublimation, descent or pouring back, and decoction, which require different temperings. Thus Nature’s well-ordered intention, ranging through varied motions, directs her interrupted works towards their proposed end and tends towards the same goal by opposite paths.

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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