OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 5302

Vulcan

/ˈvʌlkən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Vulcano
The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, especially blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.
But I perceiue nowe that all red colloured stones are not Rubies, nether is euery one Alexander that hath a stare in his cheke, al lame men are not Vulcans, nor hooke nosed men Cic…
The goddess Venus was the wife of Vulcan.
Vulcano
A placename.
When Mercury's orbit was discovered to deviate from the predictions from Isaac Newton's laws of gravity, astronomers hypothesized the existence of planet Vulcan, whose gravity coul…
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