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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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Lunaria

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Lunar naming applied to Nature’s sulphur.

In the book. Luna and Luna compacta provide different material equivalents.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 30; facsimile PDF page 358.

Historical Definition

Lunaria is the sulphur of Nature.

Meaning

The equivalent is a qualified sulphur, not the familiar plant-name a reader might expect and not simply silver. Nature is part of the expression the compiler supplies, so the meaning cannot be settled by translating the lunar stem alone.

Use in the Book

Luna and Luna compacta provide different material equivalents. Sulphur rerum, in turn, concerns the quintessence of things. These headings place Lunaria within a network of qualified names without supplying a warrant to identify every member of that network as one substance.

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Luna. The lunar name denotes silver.

Luna compacta. A lunar compound assigned to quicksilver.

Sulphur rerum. The sulphur of things used as a name for their quintessence.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 30; facsimile PDF page 358 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 358, Lunaria

See also. Luna; Luna compacta; Sulphur rerum

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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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