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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Crocus of Mars names a historical preparation associated here with steel and the claimed strengthening of a magnet. Mars has a metallic association with iron, so the phrase is not a reference to the culinary flower. The passage’s oil of that preparation remains a historically named material whose exact modern identity is not established by the supplied description.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 22Latin“oleo croci martis” See also: Colouring materials and gem resemblances.