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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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Caloris autem impulsu humor sublimatur: Igne suo quippe tanquam proprio instrumento vtitur Natura, vt corpora humida rarefaciat: Ideò vapores, ex quibus nubes & pluuiae generantur, brumali & verno tempore frequentiores attolluntur, quia Terrae vterus tunc calido & humido magis abundat, humor autem est causa materialis, calor efficiens vaporum & exhalationum. Calorem quodammodo intensum in sublimando exhibet Natura, inter fines & latitudinem temperamenti dum cohibeatur.

English

Moisture is sublimed by the impulse of heat. Nature uses her own fire as her proper instrument to rarefy moist bodies. Hence vapours, from which clouds and rains are generated, rise more frequently in winter and spring, because earth’s womb then abounds more in heat and moisture. Moisture is the material cause, and heat the efficient cause, of vapours and exhalations. In subliming, Nature applies a somewhat intensified heat, provided it is kept within the limits and range of tempering.

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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