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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Quatuor illas primaeuas qualitates rebus ipsis, & rerum Elementis innatas & essentiales, ad Naturae nutum permiscibiles, & ideò non aduersas qui posuerit, non hallucinabitur; sunt enim velut quatuor organa, seu instrumenta, quibus Natura in alterationibus & generationibus suis peragendis vtitur.

English

Whoever holds those four primordial qualities to be innate and essential to things themselves and to their Elements, minglable at Nature’s will and therefore not opposed, will not be mistaken. For they are like four organs or instruments which Nature uses in carrying out her alterations and generations.

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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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