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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The passage contrasts large and flattened ears and associates them with hearing, memory, health, and character. Its mixture of bodily function and moral judgement is characteristic of the catalogue. The anatomical words are intelligible, but the inferential rules are the source’s claims, not a valid way to infer someone’s diligence, honesty, courage, or worth from ear shape.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 27Latin“Aures depressae”