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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Demissio secunda Naturae rota in opere circulari est spirituosi vaporis in corpus densum & aqueum reductio: siue rarefacti & sublimati humoris iterumque condensati refusio: ac in terram descensio vt eam exuberato liquore diluat, & quasi nectareo caelestique potu imbibat.

English

Descent, Nature’s second wheel in the circular work, is the reduction of spirituous vapour to a dense and watery body: the pouring back of moisture that has been rarefied and sublimed and then condensed again, and its descent into earth to moisten her with enriched liquor and imbue her as though with a heavenly drink of nectar.

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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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