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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Proprietas concludes the opening list of qualities altered in transmutation, paired with natura. It directs attention to what belongs characteristically to a thing, alongside its form, colour, and virtue. The passage lists several possible dimensions of transformation rather than requiring the reader to collapse all of them into a single change of visual appearance or modern chemical identity.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 1Latin“naturam vel proprietatem”