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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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Distinctions That Organise the Argument

Relation: Authority / judgment Question to follow: How can respect for predecessors leave room for a new argument? Passages: Preface, Preface

Relation: Light / matter Question to follow: How does an active principle give order to a receiving nature? Passages: 164, 223

Relation: Soul / spirit / body Question to follow: Which term gives form, which mediates, and which receives? Passages: 163–165

Relation: Innate heat / radical moisture Question to follow: How are cooperating powers distinguished? Passages: 213, 224

Relation: Difference / harmony Question to follow: When do unequal qualities make concord or disorder? Passages: 229, 231

Relation: Creator / created whole Question to follow: How is unity maintained without making the maker a part? Passages: 240–245

A proposed symbolic application should preserve the work performed by each distinction. The relation can illuminate another subject without making the historical objects disappear.

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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