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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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Animalia praeter existentiam & vegetandi facultatem animâ sensitiuâ praecellunt, quae in ipsis est principium motus & vitae. Animal itaque in summo rerum inferiorum gradu situm opus Naturae in regno Elementari complet, propriè viuit, propriè gignit, in eo sexum vtrumque verè distinxit Natura, vt ex duobus tertium producatur, proles videlicet: Sic in perfectioribus perfectiùs elucescit Trinitatis symbolum.

English

Animals, beyond existence and the faculty of growth, excel through a sensitive soul, which is in them the principle of motion and life. Thus the animal, placed at the highest degree of lower things, completes Nature’s work in the elemental kingdom: it lives in the proper sense and begets in the proper sense. In it Nature has truly distinguished the two sexes so that from two a third may be produced, namely offspring. Thus in more perfect things the symbol of the Trinity shines more perfectly.

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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