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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordQuicklime is named in Latin as Calx viua among the claimants’ candidate substances.
- In KhunrathThe catalogue supplies no preparation using it.
- In this editionThe ordinary English quicklime follows the supplied translation, while the exact Latin retains the name’s apparent living-language for comparison.
- A reading distinctionDo not infer from calx that Khunrath is here prescribing calcination.
Meaning
Quicklime is named in Latin as Calx viua among the claimants’ candidate substances. The adjective belongs to that material-name; it is not a claim that this is the Philosophers’ living Mercury.
Use in the book
The catalogue supplies no preparation using it. Read with the demand for proper grounds on page 35, its role is to show another proposed identification that cannot stand on a familiar name alone.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 34Calx viua appears as a named rival candidate.
Translation in this edition
The ordinary English quicklime follows the supplied translation, while the exact Latin retains the name’s apparent living-language for comparison.
Source note
Do not infer from calx that Khunrath is here prescribing calcination. The page lists a material, not an operation.