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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 Crudus

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Mercurius Crudus

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Mercury described before separation from its mineral source.

In the book. Kachimia describes unripe metallic ore in its first state.

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

Historical Definition

Mercurius Crudus is mercury not yet separated from its ore.

Meaning

Crude names a relation to preparation: separation has not yet occurred. The word does not by itself provide a quantitative measure of impurity or identify everything accompanying the material.

Use in the Book

Kachimia describes unripe metallic ore in its first state. Mercurius metallorum præcipitatus describes mercury extracted from metals and precipitated. These entries place the crude state beside different kinds of origin and treatment, rather than making all raw metallic materials identical.

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Kachimia. Metallic ore described as unripe and at its beginning.

Mercurius metallorum præcipitatus. A preparation specified by metallic extraction followed by precipitation.

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 Crudus

See also. Kachimia; Mercurius metallorum præcipitatus

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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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