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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The physiognomic catalogue assigns moral qualities to eye colours, claims which are not reliable character evidence. The grey-blue-eye sentence contains both ambigui, wavering, and constantis, steadfast. The edition retains the contradiction rather than changing the Latin to an opposite adjective. This is a textual difficulty within the historical classification, not evidence that its eye-colour rules offer valid personal assessment.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 24Latin“ambigui, constantis”