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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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Naturæ elementa, tum etiam alimenta generationem & nutritionem, quarum eadem ferè ratio est, à putrefactione inchoant; vtraque enim putrefieri, & per putrefactionem in humidam quasi in primam materiam resolui necesse est: tunc fit chaos, cui omnia generationi aut nutritioni necessaria insunt. Sic cuiusuis Microcosmi generatio & reparatio Macrocosmi creationi & conseruationi analogicè respondent.

English

Nature’s elements, and likewise food, begin generation and nourishment—which follow almost the same pattern—with putrefaction. Both must putrefy and through putrefaction be resolved into moist matter, as though into first matter. There then arises a chaos containing everything necessary for generation or nourishment. Thus the generation and restoration of every Microcosm correspond by analogy to the creation and preservation of the Macrocosm.

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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