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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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Anontagius

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At a Glance

The word. A name referring to the philosophers’ stone.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332.

Historical Definition

Anontagius is the philosophers’ stone.

Meaning

The entry’s function is recognition: an unfamiliar word points to a better-attested family of philosophical vocabulary. It supplies no separate description of the stone, its stages or its preparation. Those belong under Lapis Philosophorum and in the text where Anontagius is used. Keeping the alias visible is valuable because it permits a reader to connect names across passages without treating the different wording as evidence for an additional substance.

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Lapis Philosophorum. The philosophers’ stone defined through supreme terrestrial power and its imparting of tincture.

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

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Anontagius ; compare Lapis Philosophorum, Cœlum Philosophorum

See also. Lapis Philosophorum; Cœlum Philosophorum

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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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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.