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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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Fel Draconis

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Fel Draconis

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Quicksilver described through an origin in tin.

In the book. Discus solis gives Quicksilver made from gold; Horion is the Mercury of gold.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 22; facsimile PDF page 350.

Historical Definition

Fel Draconis is Quicksilver from tin.

Meaning

The relation “from tin” distinguishes the entry from an unrestricted synonym for Quicksilver. The dictionary gives no account of the process by which the material is obtained. The phrase should remain a reported preparative or material relationship.

Use in the Book

Discus solis gives Quicksilver made from gold; Horion is the Mercury of gold. These entries show how mercurial vocabulary can be qualified through another metal. They do not make the materials identical or provide a method for deriving one from the other. The particular source named under Fel Draconis is tin.

Places to Read

Discus solis. Quicksilver described through a claimed origin in gold.

Horion. A mercurial term qualified through gold.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 22; facsimile PDF page 350 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Fel Draconis

See also. Discus solis; 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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