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Diamond

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A named gem of exceptional hardness, later a cutting and jewelry stone. Not adamant as Hesiod’s unbreakable material, and not the philosophers’ stone.

  • Diamond is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats adamas among the hardest stones noted in remedy and marvel speech. A Roman-era pharmacological mention of diamond-hardness, not adamant as a mythic metal already walked and not a jewelry dump alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Diamond is historically related to Dye.

    In Heather's Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, Diamond is named in the craft lemmas beside Dye.

    from J. F. Heather · Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, 1849 (and later PD editions)

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  • Diamond is historically related to Gold.

    In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Diamond and Gold are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

    from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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  • Diamond is historically related to Workshop.

    In al's The Jewish Encyclopedia, Diamond is named as workshop kit — a working piece of the trade.

    from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906

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  • Diamond is associated with Cube.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, of the forms of the diamond, probably the octahedron and the cube are the only primary ones — diamond sits with that cube form.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Octahedron is associated with Diamond.

    In Ure’s Dictionary, cleavage yields the diamond’s primitive form, the regular octahedron — the octahedron is that diamond crystal form.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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Buddhist traditions

  • Diamond appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra names diamond among hard jewel-treasures of Buddha-land speech. A named diamond in that sūtra, not Pliny pharmacy alone and not vajra as the thunderbolt-sceptre already walked Vedically.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Hellenic religion

  • Diamond appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names diamonds, the hardest of stones, in the Styx material comparison beside pearls. A named diamond in that periegesis, not adamant as Hesiod’s unbreakable material and not the Buddhist Lotus diamond seat alone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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