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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Mineral water is named as the medium through which imperfect metals in ores can allegedly mature under skilled alchemical work. The adjective qualifies the water; it does not provide its composition or make the phrase equivalent to modern bottled mineral water. Its explanatory role parallels the water involved in plant growth while extending the analogy into mineral transformation, a further claim that requires its own evidence.
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- Book 2 · Growth · Passage 1Latin“per aquam mineralem maturari possunt”