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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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Vulcanii

Operations instruments and practitioners · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Names for practitioners habitually occupied with fire.

In the book. Vulcanus supplies the corresponding direct fire name.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 47; facsimile PDF page 375.

Historical Definition

Vulcanii or Vulcanici are those who continually work about fire.

Meaning

The subject is people and their activity. Continually describes their characteristic occupation. The entry does not itself identify them as spirits dwelling within fire.

Use in the Book

Vulcanus supplies the corresponding direct fire name. Salamandri, by contrast, are spirits or fiery men dwelling in fire. Preserving the verbs, working about and dwelling in, prevents different kinds of beings and practitioners from being confused.

Places to Read

Salamandri. Spirits or fiery men associated with residence in fire.

Reverberatorium. A furnace defined by flame calcination.

Vulcanus. A name directly equated with fire.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 47; facsimile PDF page 375 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Vulcanii; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 375; compare Salamandri, Reverberatorium, Vulcanus

See also. Salamandri; Reverberatorium; Vulcanus

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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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