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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Nativus distinguishes a naturally occurring or native material from a manufactured counterpart, while similis can limit a claim to likeness. The lead-to-tin paragraph ends with similarity in whiteness, and imitation coral is compared with native coral only in appearance. These small qualifications are essential evidence against treating every described transmutation as an assertion of total identity.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 20Latin“Anglico stanno similis fit”