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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 Solis

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Calx Solis

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Gold distinguished by calcination.

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

Historical Definition

Calx Solis is calcined gold.

Meaning

The definition gives a familiar material in a prepared condition. The planetary form of the name is decoded explicitly as gold; the action is calcination. A reader should preserve that preparation rather than replace the complete expression with unqualified gold.

Compare Aurum planatum, a worked leaf form, and Aurum vitæ, which is described through precipitation, reverberation and redness. The shared gold vocabulary does not make those products interchangeable. The dictionary supplies separate entries because form and treatment can be central to the intended sense.

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Chrysos. A direct name equivalence for gold.

Aurum planatum. Gold identified by being beaten into a thin form.

Aurum vitæ. A gold preparation identified through precipitation, heating and intense redness.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Calx Solis ; compare Chrysos, Aurum planatum, Aurum vitæ, Cinificatum

See also. Chrysos; Aurum planatum; Aurum vitæ; Cinificatum

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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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