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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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Etiam in vegetabilium seminibus spiritum secretum Deus occultauit, generationis autorem specifico caractere insignitum, qui penitus caelestis est, ac aetherei luminis radius, corruptionis expers, in quo specifica forma conseruatur sub corpore cuiuslibet indiuidui, quo per corruptionem emollito & resoluto spiritus ille immortalis à viuifico & homogeneo Solis calore euocatus in stirpem nouam consurgit, ac in eam antiquae formam traducit.

English

In the seeds of plants, too, God has hidden a secret spirit, the author of generation, marked with a character proper to the species. It is wholly heavenly, a ray of ethereal light free from corruption, in which the specific form is preserved beneath the body of each individual. When that body has been softened and resolved through corruption, the immortal spirit, called forth by the sun’s life-giving and homogeneous heat, rises into a new plant and transfers into it the form of the old.

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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