The Summary of Physics Restored

Name: The Summary of Physics Restored
Author: Attributed to Jean d’Espagnet

A Fresh English Translation from the Complete 1653 Latin Enchiridion

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Diuinitas cùm sit vnitas perfectissima, duobus tamen quodammodo constare & absolui videtur, nempe intellectu & voluntate: Per intellectum omnia ab æterno cognoscit: Per voluntatem omnia operatur, vtrumque absolutissimè. Scientia & sapientia ad Intellectum pertinent; bonitas autem, iustitia, clementia, & cæteræ virtutes, quæ morum apud nos habentur, ad voluntatem spectant; imò & ipsa Dei omnipotentia, quæ nihil aliud est, quàm voluntas omnipotens. Intelligibiles naturæ, nempe angelica & anima humana; quæ Diuinitatis sunt imagunculæ, duabus etiam illis facultatibus ad pondus suum & mensuram præditæ sunt; intellectus enim in illis est organum scientiæ, Voluntas operationis, nec aliquid vltra possunt.

English

Although Divinity is the most perfect unity, it nevertheless seems in a certain way to consist and be complete in two things: intellect and will. Through intellect it knows all things from eternity; through will it performs all things, both in the most perfect manner. Knowledge and wisdom belong to Intellect; goodness, justice, mercy and the other virtues that among us concern conduct belong to will. So indeed does God’s omnipotence itself, which is nothing other than omnipotent will. Intelligible natures, namely the angelic nature and the human soul, which are little images of Divinity, are also endowed with those two faculties according to their own weight and measure. In them intellect is the instrument of knowledge, Will of operation; beyond these they can do nothing.

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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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