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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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Divertalium

Elements principles and the natural world · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Generation attributed to the elements.

In the book. Dardo concerns successive generation by propagation.

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

Historical Definition

Divertalium, or Divertellum, is generation made by the elements.

Meaning

The two forms name a kind or account of generation through its agents, the elements. No particular generated subject is specified, and the definition does not describe the stages of the process. Keep the attribution to elements rather than replacing it with a narrower reproductive explanation.

Use in the Book

Dardo concerns successive generation by propagation. Elementum defines the elemental domain through change and corruption. These entries place generation in a larger vocabulary of origins and transformation, but leave the relation between the different formulations to the author being read.

Places to Read

Dardo. Generation understood as a continuing succession through propagation.

Elementum. The elemental domain described through corruption, transience and change.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Divertalium

See also. Dardo; Elementum

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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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