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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The paragraph after the general putrefaction account distinguishes many kinds, saying that one brings forth its generation differently and sooner than another. These small comparative words constrain the sweeping opening statements. They prevent a single timing or outcome from being inferred for every material. The passage proceeds to an egg example, but that example does not cancel its explicit recognition of variation among putrefactive processes.
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- Book 1 · Generation · Passage 2Latin“una quoque citius quam altera”