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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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Calcitis

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Calcitis

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A metal-bearing stone described through the production of brass.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341.

Historical Definition

Calcitis is a stone from which brass is boiled.

Meaning

The definition identifies its stone through a process and resulting metal rather than by colour or shape. The historical verb “boiled” should remain visible because it is the account’s description of the working. It does not, by itself, establish a complete smelting procedure or a modern mineral species.

A reader should distinguish Calcitis, the starting stone in this sentence, from the brass said to be obtained from it. That simple source/product distinction prevents a lexical gloss from being mistaken for an equation between ore and finished metal.

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Æs. A metal term whose referent must be established from context.

Fusio. An operation defined by melting and flow in fire.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Calcitis ; compare Æs, Fusio

See also. Æs; Fusio

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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.