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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 Veneris

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Calx Veneris

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A Venus-qualified calx identified as verdigris.

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

Historical Definition

Calx Veneris is verdigris.

Meaning

The definition gives the intended material directly. It is more reliable to follow that explicit identification than to translate the planetary name in isolation and stop there. Almizadir and Ziniar provide other routes into the verdigris vocabulary.

Chrysocolla is described as a green earth like verdigris, which is a resemblance rather than the same direct equation. Comparing the entries makes the difference between “is” and “like” useful. Their shared colour language does not, by itself, establish identical material composition.

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Almizadir. A historical name directing the reader to verdigris.

Ziniar. A historical verdigris synonym.

Chrysocolla. A green earth identified through resemblance to verdigris.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Calx Veneris ; compare Almizadir, Ziniar, Chrysocolla

See also. Almizadir; Ziniar; Chrysocolla

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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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