ON PHYSICS

RESTORED.

EPIGRAM.

Behold the rising radiance of Physics, which by an ill-fated hand
dark Barbarism had submerged in the waters of the Styx original: "Stygiis... vadis"; the Styx is the river of the underworld in Greek mythology, representing death or the "darkness" of lost knowledge..
Thus Physics sees the damages to her beauty and her dowry repaid
so that she hopes to attract even more suitors.
O amazement! O, whom does she not strike with wondrous love!
Venus herself did not rise more gracefully from her father’s sea.
This golden one A personification of the science of Physics. does not think herself merely restored by these writings,
but born anew from the laboring brain of Jove original: "Iouis"; a reference to the myth of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was born fully grown from the forehead of Jupiter (Jove)..

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Vocabulary: Physics (Study of nature), Epigram (A short, witty poem), Gaius (The poem's author), Venus (Goddess of love/beauty), Jove (Jupiter, king of the gods), Stygian (Relating to the underworld/darkness).