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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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Radij tamen solares oculis nostris obuij puri spiritus non sunt, nam iugiter à Sole exeuntes circumstanti æthere illis consentaneo induti progrediuntur: nihil itaque aliud sunt, quàm fluxus continuus spirituum luminis, qui à fonte suo perenni quasi riuuli iugiter effluentes, ac æthereæ naturæ, non aliter quàm flamma tenuissimo fumo se insinuantes, vndequaque per vniuersam Orbis latitudinem lumen spargunt.

English

The solar rays that meet our eyes are not, however, pure spirits. As they continually issue from the Sun, they proceed clothed in the surrounding ether, which is congenial to them. They are thus nothing other than a continuous flow of spirits of light. Flowing constantly like little streams from their perennial source and entering ethereal nature as flame enters exceedingly fine smoke, they scatter radiance in every direction across the whole breadth of the World.

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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