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On one occasion Clusius speaks about eagle-stones, in the other letters about lapides or res metallica in general: these together adumbrate a more general field of natural science Clusius was interested in. Specific non-living naturalia appear as a minor or major subject in a number of letters from or to Clusius. Within natural philosophy or the natural sciences (the sixteenth century was a time of transition from the one to the other), Clusius was not only interested in plants, but also in animals and non-living naturalia. The basic statement of this . . .
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