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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Book Eight admits that separations are manifold and not all are known to the author. It promises to arrange those investigated in dissoluble natural things. The negative quantifier is important: the catalogue claims selective experiential knowledge rather than completeness. This local admission should remain beside stronger universal formulations elsewhere instead of being erased by a summary calling the book exhaustive.
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- Book 8 · Separation · Passage 6Latin“nobis quidem non omnes cognitae”