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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordRipley is the edition's identification of the Latinized Ryplæus in a single marginal maxim.
- In KhunrathPage 109 includes him among the friends Geber, Ripley, and Paracelsus while declaring Nature's truth a greater friend.
- In this editionThe original form belongs in the lemma list; Ripley is the readable English name supplied by the edition.
- A reading distinctionThe source does not give a first name, title, date, or biographical episode for Ryplæus.
Meaning
Ripley is the edition's identification of the Latinized Ryplæus in a single marginal maxim.
Use in the book
Page 109 includes him among the friends Geber, Ripley, and Paracelsus while declaring Nature's truth a greater friend. The name expresses respect without granting unconditional authority. The surrounding rule makes natural possibility the standard for both study and labour, and the body requires interpretation beyond bare verbal sound.
No work by Ripley is titled or quoted individually here. The passage therefore warrants a distinct lookup entry for the named authority, but not the attribution of a particular operation, sequence, or doctrine to him within this book. His role is clearest as an example of a valued author whom the reader must nevertheless understand under the common rule.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 109 · marginRyplæus is named in the friendship maxim governed by Nature’s truth.
Translation in this edition
The original form belongs in the lemma list; Ripley is the readable English name supplied by the edition. It should not be expanded into a claim that a particular Ripley text is the source of the surrounding rule.
Source note
The source does not give a first name, title, date, or biographical episode for Ryplæus.