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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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Turba magna

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Turba magna

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A multitude of stars and the presage associated with them.

In the book. Trigonum concerns transformations of stellar spirits, while Similitudines names celestial appearances.

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

Historical Definition

Turba magna is an innumerable multitude of celestial stars, and a presage made by any of them.

Meaning

The definition joins the celestial multitude with an act of presaging. The first clause describes the stars collectively; the second concerns a sign made by any one of them. Both senses belong to the full entry.

Use in the Book

Trigonum concerns transformations of stellar spirits, while Similitudines names celestial appearances. Their shared celestial setting gives a reading route, without making the phenomena equivalent.

Places to Read

Similitudines. Appearances described as celestial.

Trigonum. Stellar spirits described through a fourfold elemental transformation.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Turba magna; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 373; compare Similitudines, Trigonum

See also. Similitudines; Trigonum

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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.