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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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Luna

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. The lunar name denotes silver.

In the book. Luna compacta is defined as quicksilver, and Lunaria as the sulphur of Nature.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 30; facsimile PDF page 358.

Historical Definition

Luna is silver.

Meaning

The equivalence gives a material reading of the planetary name. In a passage about metals, Luna may therefore mean silver rather than the celestial moon. The dictionary does not make every occurrence of the word in every kind of discourse metallic.

Use in the Book

Luna compacta is defined as quicksilver, and Lunaria as the sulphur of Nature. Their qualifying forms matter. Reading them all as ordinary silver because they begin with lunar language would collapse distinctions the compiler has preserved.

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Luna compacta. A lunar compound assigned to quicksilver.

Lunaria. Lunar naming applied to Nature’s sulphur.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 30; facsimile PDF page 358 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 358, Luna

See also. Luna compacta; Lunaria

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About This Reading Edition

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.

About This Edition

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.