The two-hundred-and-eightieth part

Meaning

Phrase.

The source attaches this numerical expression to the attractive power enclosed in seed and refers readers to the Twelve Treatises. The immediate function is to explain growth through a very small hidden efficacy that draws nourishment. It should not be converted into a laboratory ratio for preparing the stone or a modern measured fraction of a chemical constituent. The supplied edition’s note 73 contrasts 8200 at Treatise III · Passage 1; the discrepancy is retained.