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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The letter closes with farewell in God’s protection and a dating formula naming Villach and 1537. Tutela describes protection, while datum belongs to the document’s formal completion. The date is a statement within the transmitted dedication, not proof that the whole nine-book compilation was composed then. Keeping the formula’s documentary function visible prevents its conversion into an unqualified chronology of the entire work.
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- Dedication to Johann Winckelsteiner · Passage 6Latin“Vale in tutela Dei. Datum Villaci, anno 1537.”