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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The head or vessel associated with sublimation, placed above a cucurbit in the cinnabar account. The source describes material rising into it and adhering there. Note 47 explains the apparatus term and leaves the accompanying greatest-flux expression unconverted into a modern temperature. Its function is collection in an upper part of an arrangement, distinct from a retort or a downward-distillation outlet.
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- Book 5 · Death · Passage 14Latin“ascendit cinnabaris in Aludel”