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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordStar-shot is a vernacular material-name in the rival candidate list.
- In KhunrathThe supplied modern note associates the name with material believed to follow a meteor fall and identifies it as Nostoc.
- In this editionNostoc is included as an editorial lookup alias only, not as an independently verified identification or an endorsement of the candidate.
- A reading distinctionThe later argument against catching the World Spirit from the air is distinct.
Meaning
Star-shot is a vernacular material-name in the rival candidate list. The primary passage neither defines it nor identifies its biological or mineral nature.
Use in the book
The supplied modern note associates the name with material believed to follow a meteor fall and identifies it as Nostoc. Those explanations belong to the apparatus, not to Khunrath’s own wording. The present entry preserves their status rather than using them to decode Magnesia.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 34Sterngeschoß occurs as one candidate without an accompanying definition.
Translation in this edition
Nostoc is included as an editorial lookup alias only, not as an independently verified identification or an endorsement of the candidate.
Source note
The later argument against catching the World Spirit from the air is distinct. This single name does not prove that its proponents held that specific theory.