Tabula Chymica
Multilingual Encyclopedia of Alchemical Glyphs, Planetary Metals, Unicode U+1F700 & 17th-Century Chymical Emblems
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I · Four Elements & Quintessence🜂 U+1F702
Fire (Ignis)
Δ / ΔH < 0Chymical fire (Ignis), glyph 🜂, the hot-dry agent of calcination, solar-martial heat, and laboratory combustion.
I · Four Elements & Quintessence🜄 U+1F704
Water (Aqua)
H2OAqua (🜄) is the cold-moist classical element and the lunar solvent that begins Solutio in chymistry.
I · Four Elements & Quintessence🜁 U+1F701
Air (Aer)
N2 / O2Air (Aer), or Aer Spiritus, is the hot-moist classical element of breath and wind, marked by the glyph 🜁.
I · Four Elements & Quintessence🜃 U+1F703
Earth (Terra)
SiO2 / Caput MortuumEarth (Terra) is the cold, dry classical element of fixity, glyph 🜃, linked to Saturn and the opus stage of coagulatio.
I · Four Elements & Quintessence🜀 U+1F700
Quintessence (Aether)
Spiritus Vini / Fifth ElementQuintessence (quinta essentia) is Aristotle's celestial fifth element and the chymists' fully rectified spirit of wine.
II · Paracelsian Tria Prima🜍 U+1F70D
Sulfur (Brimstone)
S8Sulfur, or brimstone (Sulphur Philosophorum), is the solar chymical soul of combustibility, signed by the glyph 🜍 (S8).
II · Paracelsian Tria Prima☿ U+263F
Mercury (Quicksilver)
HgMercury, or quicksilver (Argentum vivum, Hg, ☿), is the liquid metal and volatile spirit of chymistry, planet of Mercurius and agent of Albedo.
II · Paracelsian Tria Prima🜔 U+1F714
Salt (Sal)
NaCl / Sal FixumParacelsian Sal Principium: the fixed bodily principle, glyph 🜔, answering to terra and, in the jar, to common salt.
II · Paracelsian Tria Prima🜏 U+1F70F
Black Sulfur (Sulphur Nigrum)
S8 / Metal Sulfide ResidueBlack Sulfur (Sulphur Nigrum) is the Saturnine black sulfur of chymistry, glyph 🜏, proper to the Nigredo.
⬡ Curated Manuscript & Laboratory Codices
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Aristotelian & Hermetic foundational triangles for Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and the Fifth Essence.
→II · Paracelsian Tria Prima
Paracelsus's three chymical principles — Sulfur (combustibility), Mercury (volatility), Salt (fixity), and Black Sulfur.
→III · Seven Planetary Metals
Classical metals paired since Greco-Babylonian antiquity with the Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn.
→IV · Acids, Salts & Minerals
Reagents, mineral acids, semi-metals, and sulfide ores of the early modern assaying and apothecary laboratory.
→V · Operations & Magnum Opus
Operational signs for Calcination and Distillation alongside the supreme emblems of Lapis, Ouroboros, Rebis, and John Dee's Monas.
→⚖ Disputationes Chymicae (Live Rankings)
See all (8) →From Sulfur and the Philosopher's Stone to Ouroboros and John Dee's Monas — which glyph carries the strongest visual geometry?
Lapis Philosophorum, Aqua Regia, Vitriol (Green Lion), or Quintessence — which agent rules the chymical furnace?
Sol (Gold), Luna (Silver), Mercurius, Venus (Copper), Mars (Iron), Jupiter (Tin), and Saturn (Lead).
Aqua Regia, Antimony (Wolf of Metals), Orpiment Arsenic, Cinnabar, and Quicksilver.
Triangles, bisected circles, and celestial points that inspired modern graphics and scientific notation.
Anima (combustibility), Spiritus (volatility), or Corpus (fixity) — which principle anchors chymical philosophy?
