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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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Thamatica

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Thamatica

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At a Glance

The word. The design of devices driven by air and water.

In the book. This broad chemical dictionary includes mechanical arts alongside materials and medicines.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 45; facsimile PDF page 373.

Historical Definition

Thamatica is an art of devising engines moved by air and water.

Meaning

Engines means constructed devices or mechanisms. The definition identifies their moving powers as air and water. It concerns an art of invention, rather than a single named vessel.

Use in the Book

This broad chemical dictionary includes mechanical arts alongside materials and medicines. Compare Reverberatorium for a specific furnace and Viltrum philosophorum for an instrument whose identity changes with its qualification.

Places to Read

Reverberatorium. A furnace defined by flame calcination.

Viltrum philosophorum. An instrument name whose qualifier changes its identification.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 45; facsimile PDF page 373 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Thamatica; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 373; compare Reverberatorium, Viltrum philosophorum

See also. Reverberatorium; Viltrum philosophorum

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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.