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Centrum Naturae Concentratum
Attributed to Ali Puli · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- shock, qualities, dwelling-house, spiritual, corporeal, rarefied, compacted, Shock and the elements.
Meaning
The anonymous excerpt says one first matter divided “in a shock” into four qualities, distinguishing spiritual and bodily elements. The bodily elements are called the spiritual elements’ dwelling-house; the latter give life and movement. This housing image makes mutual relation, not two unrelated inventories, the point of the division. The paragraph then calls air rarefied water and water compacted air. Its additional wording about coagulated water is difficult within that account; a lexicon should preserve the supplied statements rather than silently reconcile them into modern states of matter.
Places to read
- Philosophical Discourse · Passage 16German“in Schreck in 4. Qualitates getheilet” The difficult “shock” wording belongs to the source.
- Philosophical Discourse · Passage 16German“der geistlichen Wohnhauß” Bodily elements are construed as a dwelling.
- Philosophical Discourse · Passage 16German“das ▽ ein compactirte Lufft” The elemental argument employs condensation-language.