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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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Mechanopeotica

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Mechanopeotica

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At a Glance

The word. An inventive art exemplified by raising and conveying water.

In the book. Mangonaria is concerned with weights, while Organopeotica finds out warlike instruments.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 32; facsimile PDF page 360.

Historical Definition

Mechanopeotica is the invention of water-works that carry water through pipes to high places, or of similar devices.

Meaning

The example identifies an engineering purpose: water is carried through pipes into a higher place. The concluding allowance for similar devices broadens the art beyond one installation, but the definition does not provide a particular pump or mechanism.

Use in the Book

Mangonaria is concerned with weights, while Organopeotica finds out warlike instruments. Read together, these names classify arts through the practical works they devise rather than explaining every device in detail.

Places to Read

Mangonaria. An art defined through the handling or alteration of heaviness.

Organopeotica. The invention of warlike instruments.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 32; facsimile PDF page 360 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 360, Mechanopeotica

See also. Mangonaria; Organopeotica

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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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