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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The author refuses to repeat separations already mentioned elsewhere and says only previously unmentioned ones need description here. Frustraneum and otiose mark an editorial economy, not an admission that the omitted operations are false. These words help explain the book’s internal references and limits: some gaps are deliberate deferrals or avoidance of repetition rather than accidental incompleteness.
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- Book 8 · Separation · Passage 41Latin“otiose hic repeti, frustraneum foret”