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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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Oleum squaminum

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Oleum squaminum

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. An alternative name for oil of tartar.

In the book. Oleum ardens adds the highest degree of correction to that base name.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 36; facsimile PDF page 364.

Historical Definition

Oleum squaminum is oil of tartar.

Meaning

The compiler supplies the prepared material as an equivalent, without adding a colour or a degree of correction. The unfamiliar headword therefore offers a lexical route to oil of tartar, not an independent description of a further operation.

Use in the Book

Oleum ardens adds the highest degree of correction to that base name. Retaining the difference allows a reader to distinguish an unqualified oil from the specially qualified condition described there.

Places to Read

Oleum ardens. Oil of tartar named in its highest stated degree of correction.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 36; facsimile PDF page 364 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 364, Oleum squaminum

See also. Oleum ardens

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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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