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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The blood paragraph describes withdrawing a watery fraction by gently tilting the vessel. Vas is the general container, unlike the more specifically named cucurbit used elsewhere. Subtilis here qualifies the movement as delicate or controlled; it need not carry all the mineral-formative sense of subtlety. Here the language of subtlety describes handling rather than a material’s invisible constituent.
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- Book 3 · Preservation · Passage 3Latin“subtili inclinatione vasis”