Oswald Croll, Philosophy Reformed and Improved (1657)

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Date
1657
Author
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Book title
PHILOSOPHY Reformed & Improved IN Four Profound TRACTATES. THE I. Discovering the Great and Deep Mysteries of Nature: By that Learned Chymist & Physitian OSW: CROLLIUS. THE OTHER III. Discovering the Wonderfull Mysteries of the Creation, BY PARACELSUS: BEING His Philosophy to the ATHENIANS. Both made English by H. PINNELL, for the increase of Learning and true Knowledge.
Publication place
London
Printer
M. S.
Publisher
Lodowick Lloyd
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP; British Library copy
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
philosophy
Summary
Nature and its creation viewed within the system of Paracelsus, the alchemist. The glossary employs William Johnson's Lexicon chymicum cum obscuriorum verborum, et rerum hermeticarum, tum phrasium Paracelsicarum (1652, 1657).
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 19
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 55
sample: Derses, a secret vapour of the earth whence wood groweth. [From Johnson (1657): "Derses, est occultus tetrae vapor, ex quo nascitur omne lignum & cresceit."]
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