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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Bismuth and cobalt appear as historical material labels in the separation catalogue and in the discussion of first beings. Their names should not automatically be treated as the chemically pure modern elements throughout the text. The local assignments concern what metals are thought to grow from or disclose through these materials within a developmental mineralogy.
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- Book 8 · Separation · Passage 11Latin“Cobaltum, Talcum, Cackimiam, Zinetum, Bisemutum”