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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The miner’s compass is divided into twenty-four hours or parts and is used to describe the direction of a travelling flash. Hora here functions as a directional division, not necessarily a time at which the event occurs. The gunpowder-train comparison describes linear movement across that framework without proving the source’s claim that the light reveals a metallic course.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 49Latin“compassi montani”