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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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Mercurius Corallinus

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A Chymical Dictionary

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Mercurius Corallinus

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A mercurial preparation identified through a coral-red result.

In the book. Mercurius Crystallinus is described through a different appearance, clarity like crystal, acquired by repeated sublimations.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 33; facsimile PDF page 361.

Historical Definition

Mercurius Corallinus is mercury brought by egg yolks and other waters to a redness like coral.

Meaning

The resemblance is one of colour. The definition names egg yolks and other waters as means of producing redness, but does not identify coral itself as an ingredient. It also leaves the other waters unspecified.

Use in the Book

Mercurius Crystallinus is described through a different appearance, clarity like crystal, acquired by repeated sublimations. These qualified names carry properties and preparation into the identification of the subject.

Places to Read

Mercurius Crystallinus. A repeatedly sublimed mercurial preparation characterised by crystal-like clarity.

In This Edition

The modernised wording keeps both the stated materials and the comparison. It does not reconstruct proportions or an operational sequence absent from the source.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 33; facsimile PDF page 361 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 361, Mercurius Corallinus

See also. Mercurius Crystallinus

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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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