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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordZinc appears in the primary marginal warning continuing from page 49 onto page 50.
- In KhunrathThe warning says not to confuse the catholic being with zinc, vitriol, antimony, quicksilver or preparations from them.
- In this editionThe name’s occurrence should be cited to the margin, not presented as a body-text catalogue item.
- A reading distinctionReading only page 50’s marginal fragment loses the governing negative description begun on page 49.
Meaning
Zinc appears in the primary marginal warning continuing from page 49 onto page 50. It is not part of the page 34 list of rival spoken identifications.
Use in the book
The warning says not to confuse the catholic being with zinc, vitriol, antimony, quicksilver or preparations from them. Its purpose is ontological: the true subject is not an already vegetable, animal, mineral or metallic being of those specified kinds.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 49 · marginThe warning begins with the claim that the subject is not an ordinary specified being.
- 1599 p. 50 · margin2Zinc heads the continued list of materials and preparations to keep distinct.
Translation in this edition
The name’s occurrence should be cited to the margin, not presented as a body-text catalogue item.
Source note
Reading only page 50’s marginal fragment loses the governing negative description begun on page 49.