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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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Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Gold under a term expressly restricted to metallic usage.

In the book. Several other entries specify particular forms or conditions of gold, including Aurum planatum and Aurum vitæ.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 18; facsimile PDF page 346.

Historical Definition

Cor, among metals, is called gold.

Meaning

The qualifying phrase “among metals” controls the identification. The entry gives a special use of Cor, not an unrestricted translation valid wherever the word occurs. A surrounding passage must therefore establish the metallic context before this gloss is applied.

Use in the Book

Several other entries specify particular forms or conditions of gold, including Aurum planatum and Aurum vitæ. Cor gives none of their preparative qualifications. It functions as a name for gold within the stated field, rather than as a description of a distinct prepared product.

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Aurum planatum. Gold identified by being beaten into a thin form.

Aurum vitæ. A gold preparation identified through precipitation, heating and intense redness.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 18; facsimile PDF page 346 — Facsimile

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

See also. Aurum planatum; Aurum vitæ

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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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