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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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Tracksat

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Metal considered before removal from its natural mine.

In the book. Thisma names mineral veins, while Regulus concerns the purified portion separated from dregs.

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

Historical Definition

Tracksat is a metal still in its mine.

Meaning

The qualifier still in its mine gives the stage or situation that distinguishes this use. The gloss concerns metal within a natural place, before a later working or preparation is specified.

Use in the Book

Thisma names mineral veins, while Regulus concerns the purified portion separated from dregs. The articles help readers follow the change from natural occurrence to an artfully separated product.

Places to Read

Regulus. The purified metallic or mineral portion after separation.

Thisma. A name for mineral veins.

Virgulta fossorum. Rods associated with the historical search for mines.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Tracksat; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 373; compare Regulus, Thisma, Virgulta fossorum

See also. Regulus; Thisma; Virgulta fossorum

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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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