Dorn, Gerhard

See Priesner and Figala, Alchemie, s.v. "Dorn, Gerhard" and Didier Kahn, "Les d6buts de Gerhard Dorn," in Telle, Analecta Paracelsica, 59-126. 

Dorn, Gerhard, and Adam von Bodenstein. Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi/ Onomasticon Theophrasti Paracelsi. Frankfurt Christoff Rab, 1584. 

Bernard of Trevisan, Denis Zacaire, Nicholas Flamel, and Gerhard Dorn. De chymico miraculo, quod lapidem philosophiae appellant. Basel Ex officina haeredum Petri Pernae, 1583. 

Even the followers of Paracelsus tended to reinterpret the recipe of the pseudo-Paracelsian Denatum rerum in order to avoid its obvious meaning. The Dictionarium 7 heophmsli Pamcelsi publishcd in 1584 by his follower Gerhard Dorn contains an elaborate attempt to decode the explicit instructions of the De natura rerum into a medicinal recipe based on wheat and wine.114 Others, such as the Scottish physician William Maxwell, assimilated the... 

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