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Thin metal plates and their preparation

lamina; laminae; laminas; laminis; laminetur; Lamina; laminare

Thin metal plates recur as starting forms for crocus, vitriol, verdigris, ceruse and other preparations.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Thin metal plates recur as starting forms for crocus, vitriol, verdigris, ceruse and other preparations. Their surfaces receive or yield altered material, which is then removed. The verb names bringing metal into that form, not adding a different substance. Its recurrence makes surface preparation a concrete thread through the mortification catalogue even where the products and purposes differ.

Places to read

  1. Book 5 · Death · Passage 3Latin“metallum tenuissime laminetur”