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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordPebbles translate the Kiselsteinen named by some claimants in the page 34 catalogue.
- In KhunrathKhunrath follows the list by challenging the claimants’ reasons.
- In this editionThe English follows the supplied translation.
- A reading distinctionThe separate difficult KJEsen reading occurs in a bird-and-nut insult.
Meaning
Pebbles translate the Kiselsteinen named by some claimants in the page 34 catalogue. The word identifies a proposed ordinary material, without disclosing a particular mineral species.
Use in the book
Khunrath follows the list by challenging the claimants’ reasons. A stone-like appearance is not itself evidence that a thing is the material of the Philosophers’ Stone, whose name has a different technical function.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 34Pebbles occur among the rival proposed subjects.
Translation in this edition
The English follows the supplied translation. It should not be sharpened into a specific modern silicate or into the unidentified word KJEsen on page 124.
Source note
The separate difficult KJEsen reading occurs in a bird-and-nut insult. Similar spelling alone does not establish that the same pebble material is meant there.