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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
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Book 9 · Signature · Passage 69
Source reference
- Latin witness
- 1605 p. 270
Latin
Pyromantia signa sua per Astra Ignis promit, in igni communi, per singulares scintillas, flammas, crepitus, &c. In fodinis per coruscationes: in firmamento, per Stellas, Cometas, & fulgur, & fulmen, & Nostoch ac similia: in spectris per Salamandrinos, Ethnicos & similes spiritus, ignis specie apparentes.
English
Pyromancy discloses its signs through the stars of fire: in ordinary fire through particular sparks, flames and cracklings; in mines through flashes; in the firmament through stars, comets, lightning, thunderbolts, nostoch and the like; and among apparitions through salamandrine, ethnic and similar spirits appearing in the form of fire.
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The complete supplied Latin–English edition of the historical title, dedication and all nine books, with 363 separately labelled historical marginal notes, 117 modern annotations and the complete Diotimos study apparatus. The transmitted composite work is traditionally attributed to Paracelsus; individual authorship remains qualified.
Historical Text and Translation
The normalized Latin follows the complete 1605 Frankfurt Palthenian witness, volume six, printed pages 198–271, in SUB Göttingen PPN578052199, historical scans 182–255. Earlier textual tradition is German; the individual translator of the 1605 Latin text is not identified. The dedication’s 1537 date is transmitted text, not an established date for the composite work.
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