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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Quasi qualifies the claim that iron filings can be reduced and transmuted into lead. The following description emphasizes lead-like softness while admitting a difference in ease of fusion. This comparative particle matters: omitting it makes the claim stronger and more uniform than its wording. Approximation therefore remains explicit even within a paragraph that otherwise speaks confidently of transmutation.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 16Latin“quasi in plumbum”