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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Orpiment and sandarac occur among mineral materials or mining indications. The source assigns them different associations with hidden metals, and the supplied edition preserves those associations rather than converting the names into reliable modern ore tests. Sandarac here is a historical mineral-context label; it should not automatically be equated with every resin that bears a related English name.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 46Latin“Cinnabaris & Sandaracha”