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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The yellow-lead paragraph distinguishes the desired yellow preparation from yellow glass said to result if heat or handling is inappropriate. Elsewhere glass names a vessel material, and in Book VI it is an outcome opposed to return of ash to metal. These are distinct senses: apparatus, transformed product and failure of metallic restoration should not be merged simply because the same noun recurs.
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- Book 5 · Death · Passage 16Latin“fieret vitrum flavum”