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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The solution account paradoxically describes what air or a cellar resolves as very dry and containing a hidden corrosive fire. Siccitas therefore is not a simple visual absence of fluid at the moment of observation. It belongs to the explanatory qualities assigned to the starting material, which the author uses to account for its response to cold and air.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 4Latin“magnae siccitatis”