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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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Coruscus

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Coruscus

Plants animals and natural materials · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A plant identified by the common name mouse-ear.

In the book. Dracunculus is glossed as adder’s-tongue, another common plant name drawing on an animal comparison.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 18; facsimile PDF page 346.

Historical Definition

Coruscus is mouse-ear.

Meaning

The definition is a short identification by a common plant name. It provides neither a description of the plant nor a distinction among plants that another historical author might call mouse-ear. Preserve the common name when a more precise identification has not been established.

Use in the Book

Dracunculus is glossed as adder’s-tongue, another common plant name drawing on an animal comparison. The dictionary preserves such names as aids to recognition. It does not give the descriptive evidence needed to settle every modern botanical identification under Coruscus.

Places to Read

Dracunculus. A plant name linked with Brassatella and adder’s-tongue.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 18; facsimile PDF page 346 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Coruscus

See also. Dracunculus

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About This Reading Edition

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.

About This Edition

Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.