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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordBloodstone closes the specifically named run of candidates before the catalogue’s open-ended “and so on.”
- In KhunrathIts blood-language should not be conflated with the sanguine essence of the tartar green stone on page 68.
- In this editionThe historical word is left without a modern mineral identification.
- A reading distinctionA shared red or blood-like vocabulary would be an interpretive resemblance, not evidence that two named materials are identical.
Meaning
Bloodstone closes the specifically named run of candidates before the catalogue’s open-ended “and so on.” The primary text supplies the name without a colour description, origin or composition.
Use in the book
Its blood-language should not be conflated with the sanguine essence of the tartar green stone on page 68. That later phrase belongs to a detailed preparation catalogue and has a different stated relation.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 34Bloodstone is the last specifically named candidate before the list remains open-ended.
Translation in this edition
The historical word is left without a modern mineral identification. Several later associations of an English name cannot decide this source’s referent.
Source note
A shared red or blood-like vocabulary would be an interpretive resemblance, not evidence that two named materials are identical.