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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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A Chymical Dictionary

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Cydar

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A name glossed as Jupiter.

In the book. Calx Iovis names a spirit of tin, while Lato is described through copper and lapis calaminaris.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 18; facsimile PDF page 346.

Historical Definition

Cydar is Jupiter.

Meaning

The definition supplies Jupiter and nothing more. Elsewhere the dictionary explicitly identifies Iupiter as tin, so the reader has a route from this unfamiliar word to the book’s metal vocabulary. That route depends on the second entry, rather than on a further claim printed here.

Use in the Book

Calx Iovis names a spirit of tin, while Lato is described through copper and lapis calaminaris. These examples remind a reader to distinguish a planetary name for a metal from a preparation or combination involving it. Cydar itself does not describe a preparation.

Places to Read

Calx Iovis. A tin-related calx name glossed as a spirit.

Iupiter. The planetary name Jupiter denotes tin here.

Lato. Copper identified after treatment that gives it a gold-like colour.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 18; facsimile PDF page 346 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Cydar

See also. Calx Iovis; Iupiter; Lato

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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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