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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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Saxa verò & lapides, quia non tam ex verâ elementorum mixtione generantur, quàm ex Terræ & Aquæ concursu per exteriorem caloris & frigoris vim, quasi opus terreum & fictile, decoquuntur, propterea omninò stupescunt, à tenebrosâ frigentique terræ & aquæ naturâ formam inualidam mutuati.

English

Rocks and stones are not so much generated by a true mixing of the elements as cooked, like an earthen object or piece of pottery, from the coming together of Earth and Water through the external force of heat and cold. They are therefore wholly insensible, having borrowed a feeble form from the dark, cold nature of earth and water.

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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