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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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Sal aluminosum

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Sal aluminosum

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A salt named through the material from which it is extracted.

In the book. The neighboring salt entries are distinguished by origin or preparation.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 41; facsimile PDF page 369.

Historical Definition

Sal aluminosum is salt extracted from alumen plumosum.

Meaning

The full compound name identifies a derived preparation. The source material is alumen plumosum, retained as a historical term because the sentence supplies no further identification of it.

Use in the Book

The neighboring salt entries are distinguished by origin or preparation. Sal crystallinum comes from human urine; Sal Calcotharinum from the colcothar of vitriol. Salt therefore works as a wider class word in this sequence.

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Sal crystallinum. A salt preparation identified by its human source.

Sal Calcotharinum. A salt derived from vitriolic colcothar.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 41; facsimile PDF page 369 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Sal aluminosum; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 369; compare Sal crystallinum, Sal Calcotharinum

See also. Sal crystallinum; Sal Calcotharinum

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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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