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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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Discus solis

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A Chymical Dictionary

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Discus solis

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Quicksilver described through a claimed origin in gold.

In the book. Horion is the Mercury of gold, while Fido can mean Quicksilver and sometimes gold.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 19; facsimile PDF page 347.

Historical Definition

Discus solis is Quicksilver made from gold.

Meaning

The definition connects two metal names through making: the Quicksilver is said to be made from gold. It should not be reduced to an ordinary synonym for gold, since that would lose the relation that distinguishes the entry. The manner of making is not explained.

Use in the Book

Horion is the Mercury of gold, while Fido can mean Quicksilver and sometimes gold. Those terms reveal overlapping naming relationships, but they do not supply a procedure or prove that every mercurial expression connected with gold has the same meaning. Follow the particular qualification in each entry.

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Fido. A name chiefly glossed as Quicksilver, with gold as another use.

Horion. A mercurial term qualified through gold.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 19; facsimile PDF page 347 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Discus solis

See also. Fido; Horion

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The complete 706 historical definitions of the 1650 English dictionary, modernised and accompanied by expanded Diotimos commentary, reading routes, 15 textual notes and complete linked indexes.

Historical Text

A Chymicall Dictionary, London 1650, English version associated with John French, based on Gerhard Dorn’s Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi. The containing volume also prints Sendivogius and Paracelsus; neither neighboring work changes this dictionary’s attribution.

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Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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