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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Glue from skins and paper from linen cloth return the chapter to familiar manufacture; flax also enters a claimed textile transformation. These examples explain why transmutation cannot be restricted to gold-making. The edition preserves the irregular printed linco while translating the evident linen sense, distinguishing a witness form from a silently corrected standard Latin spelling.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 28Latin“ex Panno linco fit papyrus”