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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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Calx Luna

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Calx Luna

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A silver preparation characterized through blue colour and flower vocabulary.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341.

Historical Definition

Calx Luna is the azure flower of silver.

Meaning

The definition explicitly identifies silver and gives a coloured flower expression for its prepared form. “Flower” should be read within that material account rather than assumed to mean a botanical part. The entry does not provide a process sufficient to identify one modern silver compound.

The Calx group is varied: Calx Solis is calcined gold, while this entry uses azure-flower language. Cheiri offers further examples in which flower expressions concern metallic elixirs. Such comparisons help decode the vocabulary without making every metallic flower the same preparation.

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Luna. The lunar name denotes silver.

Calx Solis. Gold distinguished by calcination.

Cheiri. A term whose sense depends on both subject matter and qualification.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Calx Luna ; compare Luna, Calx Solis, Cheiri

See also. Luna; Calx Solis; Cheiri

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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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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.