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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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Marmoreus tartarus

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Marmoreus tartarus

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A bodily stone distinguished through a comparison with marble.

In the book. Magneticus tartarus uses another hard material, the lodestone, and adds sponginess.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 32; facsimile PDF page 360.

Historical Definition

Marmoreus tartarus is a stone in a human being as hard as marble.

Meaning

Marble supplies the comparison of hardness, while the location is the human body. The wording should not be read as a claim that an ordinary block of marble has entered the body. Nor does it give a cause or an anatomical location beyond that general setting.

Use in the Book

Magneticus tartarus uses another hard material, the lodestone, and adds sponginess. The two descriptions differentiate kinds of bodily stone through properties and comparisons within the book’s account of tartar.

Places to Read

Magneticus tartarus. A bodily stone described by hardness and a spongy structure.

Tartarum. A wine-vessel deposit whose name also serves for bodily stones or gravel.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 32; facsimile PDF page 360 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 360, Marmoreus tartarus

See also. Magneticus tartarus; Tartarum

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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.

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

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