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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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Latin

Quæcunque viuunt, siue vegetabilia, siue animalia, cibo suo indigent, vt naturales, qui continuò per poros effluunt, spiritus restaurentur, & Naturæ dispendium reparetur: Ex succulentiori enim cibi substantia fit succus nutriens, quo totius corporis partes humorésque resarciuntur: ex puriori autem parte humorum, sanguinis præsertim, æthereo influxu illi se per respirationem admiscente, humidum radicale renouatur & reficitur.

English

All living things, whether plants or animals, need their own food, so that the natural spirits continually flowing out through their pores may be restored and Nature’s expenditure made good. From the more succulent substance of food comes the nourishing juice by which the parts and humours of the whole body are replenished. From the purer portion of the humours, especially the blood, radical moisture is renewed and restored as an ethereal influx mingles with it through respiration.

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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