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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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Calx Saturni

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Calx Saturni

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A Saturn-qualified calx identified as minium.

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

Historical Definition

Calx Saturni is minium.

Meaning

The entry supplies a specific historical material name rather than an operation. That makes Minium the most direct cross-reference. The Saturn qualification connects the compound with the dictionary’s wider lead vocabulary, but its own gloss should still govern the immediate reading.

Azemasor offers minium or cinnabar as alternatives, whereas this entry gives minium alone. Preserve that difference. A cross-reference can connect the words without turning every related red material into the same substance or every occurrence into a complete preparation.

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Minium. A precipitated lead preparation with an explicit correction of terminology.

Azemasor. A name assigned to two historical pigment or mineral terms.

Cauda vulpis rubicundi. A fox-tail expression identified with lead minium.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Calx Saturni ; compare Minium, Azemasor, Cauda vulpis rubicundi

See also. Minium; Azemasor; Cauda vulpis rubicundi

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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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