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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Ipsemet intensifies the first-person claim: the speaker has not tried everything personally. The emphasis helps separate direct trial from mediated testimony in the following phrase about receiving knowledge from and through others. It is therefore not a decorative pronoun. Removing it from a summary would obscure the carefully stated limit that distinguishes the body of the dedication from its stronger marginal assurance.
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- Dedication to Johann Winckelsteiner · Passage 3Latin“non omnia ipsemet expertus sim”