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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The metallic account distinguishes perfected constituents from less perfect and more tenuous ones in ores and semimetals. These comparative adjectives explain differences within a shared three-principle scheme. They are not moral judgments and do not assign a modern purity percentage. Book 2 develops the related immature condition into a claim about maturation, so a material’s incompleteness becomes both an explanation of its present state and an invitation to transformation.
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- Book 1 · Generation · Passage 14Latin“ex imperfectioribus & tenuioribus”