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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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Tria elementa materialia quia in rerum compositione remota sunt, soli Deo & Naturae obediunt, nec artis aut ingenij humani leges patiuntur: Tria autem alia ex priorum illorum copulâ nascuntur; quae per viam resolutionis extracta in mixtorum compositione proxima esse satis arguunt, Sal nempe, sulfur & Mercurius. Et ita trinitatem Elementorum & vniuersae Naturae sigillum esse fit manifestum.

English

The three material elements, being remote in the composition of things, obey God and Nature alone and do not submit to the laws of art or human ingenuity. Three others are born from the union of the former three. Extracted by way of resolution, they sufficiently show themselves to be proximate in the composition of mixed bodies: salt, sulphur, and mercury. Thus it becomes manifest that a trinity is the seal of the elements and of all Nature.

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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