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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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Subject Index

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Subject Index

Entries link to stable passages and study features. Numbers identify canons, not pages of the modern edition.

Act and Potency

glossary.

Air

glossary.

Arcanum, Companion Work

historical title, source note.

Archetype

glossary.

Aristotle

original preface, 14, 15.

Art

glossary.

Authority

original preface, essay.

Body

glossary.

Boundaries of Philosophy

original preface.

Cause

glossary.

Chain of the World

9, contextual entry.

Chaos

glossary.

Concord

glossary.

Corruption

glossary.

Creation

glossary.

D’Espagnet, Attribution

edition statement, source record.

Dry Water

49, contextual entry.

Earth

glossary.

Elements

glossary.

English Printing, 1651

bibliography.

Epigram

original poem.

Ether

glossary.

Fire

glossary.

Form

glossary.

Generation

glossary.

Genesis

20, 22, 39.

Glass

217, contextual entry.

God

1, 240, 245.

Harmony

glossary.

Heat, Innate

glossary.

Heaven, Continuous

237, contextual entry.

Hermes and Trismegistus

2, 3, 12.

Human Being as Compendium

37, contextual entry.

Intellect

glossary.

Judgment

original preface, essay.

Jupiter and Pallas

2, epigram.

Light

glossary.

Love

glossary.

Magnetic Love

62.

Matrix

glossary.

Matter, First

glossary.

Mercury

65.

Moisture, Radical

glossary.

Moon and Its Inhabitants

242, essay.

Motion

glossary.

Music

231, 240.

Natural Philosophy, Meaning Of

edition statement.

Nature

glossary.

Plato

original preface, 94.

Printing Irregularities

translation policy, 22, 27, 43.

Privation

45, 46.

Public Domain

source and rights.

Quality

glossary.

Restoration

original preface, essay.

Salt

glossary.

Salt and Ashes

218, 220.

Seasons

234, 235.

Seed

glossary.

Soul

glossary.

Spirit

glossary.

Spontaneous Generation

221, 222.

Sun

glossary.

Symbolic Reading

introduction, reading route.

Temperament

glossary.

Trinity

35.

Uncertainty and Probability

17, contextual entry.

Universe as Commonwealth

original preface, 240.

Venus, Birth Of

epigram.

Water

glossary.

Will

glossary.

Worlds, Plurality Of

241, 242, contextual entry.

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.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The historical Latin text is a public-domain work. The supplied 2026 fresh English translation, readable Latin transcription and Diotimos editorial material are published with the site owner’s authorization.