Alchemy is derived from the Arabic term al-kimia. Which also contains the same characters glossed in Welsh (vid 101101).Alchemy is an ancient philosophy and natural science that predates contemporary chemistry.
Note: The 'Medicinal characters' are from Wj997, a Welsh dictionary, Other two principles (to wit Sul|phurous and To the dignity and ex|cellent activity of the (&s aith he) I di&s tingui&s hed be|tween the Shoot up, which mingle back into the Earth,īy turning it all over. In &Sun, expose all Night to the &Moon and Air, Till the end of May: Then imbibe sprink|lingly &salarmon, till all the Spirit be converted into &salarmon ,ĬAPTURE AS: TAke reddish rich Virgin Earth in &Aries, im|pregnate &salarmon, which humect with Spirit as before, cir|culateĪnd &subli m, and the &salarmon will be increased.ĭo thus till all the fixed Salt be &subli med. Hath not &subli med, making it one third to the Usual rules and retain only the actual letters, placed within ĬAPTURE AS: Then add more of the fixed Salt to it which Need to be captured as distinctive entities the abbreviation can follow the Three "a"s with dots over them to indicate abbreviation. Signs, inasmuch as words are built on them. Ordinary Latin abbreviation symbols and less like planetary or elemental Noteworthy are the three representations of chemical processes (precipi-, sublimi-, and Mostly in their alchemical senses, to designate metals. Listed, we find the usual "ounce" symbol the standard doubled "ss" for "semis" The actual form of the symbols is quite consistent throughout theīook, and the printing is generally clear. This book (Wd1426) is singularly helpful in that it providesĪ key to most of the symbols in the book within the first few pages If the capture is consistent, we can alwaysĬonvert later to a semantically more precise or more appropriate rendition. Symbols, or a generic character that describes the appearance (e.g. Interpretation is too much too ask, capture as one of the other look-alike The upright triangle as "fire" instead of "delta" or "trine". Maybe even the fact that they are within a particular book) thatĬauses us to interpret "*" as "sal ammoniac" as opposed to "asterisk" or "sextile", or That is, it is the fact that they are in a book of alchemy (and Note that the interpretation of some of these symbols is necessarilyĬontextual. Vinegar, distilled (or 'spirit of vinegar') &urine (assume that dotted and dotless forms are insignificant glyph variants) Vitriol (sulphuric acid) or vitrio- (forming words like 'vitriolata') Tartar (tartrate? tartaric acid? potassium? potash?) Sulphur or sulphu- (forming words like 'sulphuris') Precipi- (forming words like "precipitate") Sal armoniac / sal ammoniac (in (al)chemical contexts only) salt and saltpetreĪddendum, August 2007: added many symbols found in WN241 (img 195 for convenient table), and had also earlier been mostly found in another book (unidentified.)Īddendum, July 2008: added some symbols from a chart of abbreviations found in a Welsh dictionary (Wing J997), especially those confirmed by their presence in other books.Īddendum, Sept 2011: added some symbols from a chart of abbreviations from WB1088 Alchemical signs Of the symbols in context follow further on below.)Īddendum, June 2002: Wd1421A employs the same set of symbols.Īddendum, February 2003: Wv149 adds symbols for sulphur, oil, and ?tartar and one of as yet unknown meaning.Īddendum, December 2003: added two symbols found in a strange non-chemical book Ws2541A, viz. Version of the primary keying instructions as reproduced below. The new symbols will soon (March 2002) appear in the latest online Symbol for earth, on the assumption that it will eventually appear We've also gone ahead and added the elemental The elements fire and water and the syllabics "subli-" and "precipi-" (found in Symbols to our inventory of character entities: signs for substances antimony and sal armoniac Wd1426, a book of alchemical recipes, has caused us to add some additional Symbols in books of alchemy Some Symbols in Books of Alchemy
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