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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The text says the supposed growth should not be counted a sign of innocence, as unskilled observers judge. Imperiti therefore identifies an alleged failure of interpretation, not simply illiteracy. The speaker claims superior causal knowledge by appealing to heat and moisture. The biological explanation remains inaccurate, but the distinction between interpreting a bodily event as an omen and proposing a natural cause is a genuine feature of the passage.
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- Book 2 · Growth · Passage 2Latin“neque pro signo innocentiae ipsius habeatur, ut imperiti iudicant”