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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
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Book 6 · Resuscitation · Passage 10
Source reference
- Latin witness
- 1605 p. 228
Latin
Ut autem generaliter de resuscitatione & restauratione rerum naturalium loquamur, sciendum est, praecipuum hic fundamentum esse, ut cuilibet rei reddatur cumque ea concordetur, iterum id, quod ei in mortificatione ademtum fuerat & ab eo separatum, quod difficulter hic specifice explicari potest. Quare hunc libellum concludemus, & in libro sequenti de transmutationibus rerum naturalium latius haec declarabimus.
English
To speak generally of the resuscitation and restoration of natural things, its chief foundation is to restore to each thing and reunite with it what was taken away and separated from it in mortification. This is difficult to explain specifically here. We shall therefore close this little book and explain these matters more fully in the following book On the Transmutations of Natural Things.
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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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