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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Flints receive a mucilaginous material as their life in Book IV, then are paired with stones in the statement that their mortification is calcination. The brevity of both notices contrasts with the long metal discussions. The text supplies a local life-principle and a named alteration, but not a full mineralogical description or a detailed argument demonstrating the proposed mucilaginous constituent.
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- Book 4 · Life · Passage 8Latin“Vita vero silicum est materia mucilaginosa”