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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

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Cœlum Spagiricum

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Cœlum Spagiricum

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At a Glance

The word. The upper region of a vessel named as a spagyrical heaven.

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

Historical Definition

Cœlum Spagiricum is the upper part of a philosophical vessel.

Meaning

The definition locates the term in apparatus. The heaven is the vessel’s upper part, not necessarily the celestial sky or the universal medicine of Cœlum Philosophorum. This spatial gloss is particularly useful when a passage describes matter rising, condensing or returning within a vessel: the immediate setting may be the apparatus rather than the cosmos. Such an application must still be confirmed by the passage.

The entry gives no vessel shape or specified component. It identifies a region, leaving the particular arrangement open. Ovum Philosophicum and Cucurbita supply related vessel vocabulary, while the other Cœlum entries make the alternative uses of heaven-language visible.

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

Cœli planetarum. The planets’ own orbs and spheres.

Ovum Philosophicum. An egg-shaped glass vessel for philosophical operations.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cœlum Spagiricum ; compare Cœlum Philosophorum, Cœli planetarum, Ovum Philosophicum, Cucurbita

See also. Cœlum Philosophorum; Cœli planetarum; Ovum Philosophicum; Cucurbita

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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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