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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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Stibium

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Stibium

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A historical name equated with antimony.

In the book. The local equation should remain the starting point when reading compounds that contain stibium.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 43; facsimile PDF page 371.

Historical Definition

Stibium is antimony.

Meaning

The dictionary supplies an English equivalent for the headword. This short statement does not distinguish an ore, a purified metal or a particular preparation.

Use in the Book

The local equation should remain the starting point when reading compounds that contain stibium. A more precise material identification requires the qualifiers and operations in the passage being read.

Alcofol supplies stibium or antimony as its identification, and Caput corvi is directly equated with antimony. These entries provide routes from alternative names to the material family. Their brief equations still leave any particular preparation to the passage being read.

Places to Read

Alcofol. A variant-name entry identifying stibium or antimony.

Caput corvi. A raven-head expression identified with antimony.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 43; facsimile PDF page 371 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Stibium; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 371; compare Alcofol, Caput corvi

See also. Alcofol; Caput corvi

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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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