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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The body calls iron or steel filings the best means of preserving a magnet and claims they increase its virtue daily. The adjacent margin prints limatio ferri, while the body has limatura ferri. The filings are a proposed strengthening agent, distinct from Mercury’s alleged removal of the spirit of iron in the earlier paragraph.
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- Book 3 · Preservation · Passage 9Latin“limatura ferri vel chalybis”