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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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Cœli planetarum

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At a Glance

The word. The planets’ own orbs and spheres.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344.

Historical Definition

Cœli planetarum are the proper orbs of the planets and their spheres.

Meaning

This entry concerns celestial regions or structures, not a chemical vessel. “Proper” assigns each orb to its planet; the plural matters because the expression refers to the differentiated planetary heavens. The dictionary supplies no measurements or diagram of their arrangement.

The neighbouring Cœlum entries have very different glosses: one concerns quintessence or universal medicine and another the upper part of a vessel. Keeping those distinctions visible is especially useful when heaven-language appears in philosophical or technical prose. The qualifier determines which field the name enters.

Places to Read

Cœlum Philosophorum. The philosophers’ heaven explained through quintessence and universal medicine.

Cœlum Spagiricum. The upper region of a vessel named as a spagyrical heaven.

Carbones cœli. Stars described through the image of heavenly coals.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cœli planetarum ; compare Cœlum Philosophorum, Cœlum Spagiricum, Carbones cœli

See also. Cœlum Philosophorum; Cœlum Spagiricum; Carbones cœli

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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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