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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Examples of resinous materials whose life is shining mucilaginous fatness. The edition renders caraba as amber, distinct from aromatic ambra, ambergris. The life catalogue prints terebinthinae, while the mortification list has terpentinae. The group’s ability to yield varnish helps define its life, while conversion into oil or varnish later names its mortification.
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- Book 4 · Life · Passage 13Latin“carabae, terebinthinae, gummi” See also: Egg white as material.