no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS Primo search 'Symeon Seth' returns a 2023 bilingual Greek-German edition of this very work ('Weltall, Erde, Mensch: Naturkunde = Synopsis ton physikon', tr. Kai Brodersen, Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag) and German versions of his other treatises - but no English record of any of them. A scan of the series field across all 27 HOLLIS records returned for 'Symeon Seth' shows no volume in the Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics series. No English translation was located (checked 2026-11-13).
A concise Christian natural philosophy written for the emperor Michael VII by a physician-philosopher of Psellos's circle; it circulated widely in Greek, Arabic and Latin. Only modern-language access is German.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Electronic text
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: no scan located. No scan located for this work. Checked: (a) IA advancedsearch title:(Symeon) with Greek-language filter, title:(Seth) AND title:(synopsis), title:(physikon), title:(Conspectus rerum naturalium) - 0 relevant hits (the 'physikon' hits are a 1807 Greek mathematics series; the 'Symeon' hits are Symeon Magister and Symeon the New Theologian); (b) IA full-text search for 'Synopsis ton physikon' - 12 hits, all dictionary/encyclopaedia entries about the work, no edition; (c) BnF catalogue SRU 'bib.anywhere all "Symeon Seth"' - 15 records, all of the *other* treatise (Simeonis Sethi Syntagma/Volumen de alimentorum facultatibus, 1561/1658/1868, arks cb31368812d, cb31368813r, cb31368815f) plus the Kalila-wa-Dimna translation and the 2023 German-adjacent items; no record for the Synopsis and no digitisation. MDZ, e-rara, ÖNB, HMML and LOC could not be searched from this host (see source notes). The only modern text is Brodersen's 2023 Greek-German bilingual print edition, in copyright.
Morton, Charles, 1627-1698. "A synopsis of naturall philosophy according to the method of the ancients, but improved & augmented with the notions of later philosophers [photostat copy] / 1680." 1680. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990097018740203941