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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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These adjectives distinguish the two faces of the fur garment used to explain Mercury. The smooth or hairless side and the hairy side are positioned differently in summer and winter. Their lexical importance is relational: changing which face is inward changes the asserted effect. The passage does not claim that Mercury literally has a hairy or bald exterior.
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- Book 4 · Life · Passage 4Latin“partem glabram interius, pilosam vero exterius”