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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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An unexplained printed material designation in the silver-to-lazurium passage. The edition retains it because the context does not justify silently replacing it with a modern reagent. Its local grammatical role is something previously boiled in the named vinegar, but that role does not establish what the substance is. This is a genuine identification gap rather than an invitation to supply a confident guess.
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- Book 5 · Death · Passage 17Latin“in quo prius auratae coctae sint”