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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordThe p. 147 margin names Capnio among the witnesses to the Azazel assertion.
- In KhunrathThe primary source uses the inflected Capnione after its witness formula.
- In this editionUse Capnio as the normalized form and Reuchlin as an editorially identified alias.
- A reading distinctionThe explanation that Capnio is a Grecized form of Reuchlin’s name belongs to the supplied apparatus; Khunrath gives only the witness name in this margin.
Meaning
The p. 147 margin names Capnio among the witnesses to the Azazel assertion. The supplied modern note identifies this name with Johann Reuchlin.
Use in the book
The primary source uses the inflected Capnione after its witness formula. It supplies no title of a Reuchlin work and quotes no passage attributed individually to him. His evidential role is shared with Pico, Agrippa and Scalichius for the claim made beside the list.
The title and alias make the occurrence findable under both names without importing a biography or treating Christian Cabala as a single doctrine reproduced in full here. The exact object of support is the attributed account of punitive divine judgment, not the earlier comparison of Magnesia with Christ.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 147 · marginCapnione occurs as one of the four named witnesses
Translation in this edition
Use Capnio as the normalized form and Reuchlin as an editorially identified alias. Do not replace the historical printed form so completely that a reader cannot locate it.
Source note
The explanation that Capnio is a Grecized form of Reuchlin’s name belongs to the supplied apparatus; Khunrath gives only the witness name in this margin.