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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The speaker contrasts speculation and theory with practice, experience and natural light. The polemic concerns the claimed source and quality of the teaching rather than an absence of general explanations: the book goes on to offer extensive causal accounts and analogies. These words should therefore not make the work appear purely observational. They identify what its prefatory voice rejects as insufficient grounds of authority.
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- Dedication to Johann Winckelsteiner · Passage 3Latin“non esse speculationes et theorias, sed praxin”