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Workshop containers, surfaces and removed scales

vesica; marmore; marmor; tigillo; tigillum; squamas; squama; Vesica

These concrete workshop words distinguish containers, working surfaces and removed products.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

These concrete workshop words distinguish containers, working surfaces and removed products. A bladder figures in the saltpetre-water account; marble supports the dissolution of sal ammoniac and later grinding or resolution. A crucible contains metal plates during heating, while scales are the surface material removed after quenching in the burnt-copper passage. Their roles differ even when they occur in the same preparation narrative: apparatus is not the product collected from it.

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  1. Book 5 · Death · Passage 8Latin“in vesica”