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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Oil is said to float above the liquid and, when interposed, separate liquids like a wall. The two images distinguish a covering relation from a barrier between portions. The paragraph also states the reverse relation, water keeping oils apart. The verbs explain the claimed arrangement rather than a new substance generated by mixture. The text’s stronger preservation claims go beyond the spatial comparison itself.
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- Book 3 · Preservation · Passage 11Latin“oleum supernatabit”