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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The extended comparison for Mercury’s inner heat and outer coldness. The author describes reversing the smooth and hairy sides according to season, so one garment can warm or cool in different dispositions. The analogy clarifies an interior/exterior relation rather than identifying a bodily ingredient of Mercury. The historical clothing example carries the argument across familiar and mineral experience.
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- Book 4 · Life · Passage 4Latin“vesti pelliceae comparari potest”