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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Iaculatio is illustrated by chaff separated from grain and follows the statement that powders of unequal weight can be separated. The concrete action is tossing or winnowing, not necessarily projectile attack despite the broader Latin verb family. Its inclusion shows that ordinary mechanical differences of weight belong beside furnace operations in the text’s repertoire of separation.
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- Book 8 · Separation · Passage 14Latin“Iaculatione, velut palea de frumento”