Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,793
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 65%
- 1,814 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,768
- Metadata match131
- Query match893
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Alchemy538
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)227
- History174
- Alchemie140
- Early works to 1800139
- Alchimie125
- Occultism122
- Social Sciences110
- Philosophy105
- Art97
- Arts and Humanities86
- Hermetism86
- Chemistry84
- Literature68
- Magic62
- Medicine53
- Archeology50
- Text50
- Art history46
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies46
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices44
- Alquimia42
- Hermeticism41
- Alchemia39
Top languages
- German812 · 29%
- English626 · 22%
- Latin426 · 15%
- NOT345 · 12%
- French192 · 7%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus243 in this tradition252 books
- Trismegistus Hermes58 in this tradition62 books
- Basilius Valentinus27 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer25 books
- Michael Maier24 in this tradition28 books
- Raimundus Lullus21 in this tradition24 books
- Gerhard Dorn17 in this tradition19 books
- Pierre-Jean Fabre16 books
- Carl Gustav Jung14 in this tradition32 books
- George Starkey14 books
- Johann Rudolph Glauber13 in this tradition14 books
- Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān12 in this tradition13 books
2,793 books
- Read free
[Pharmaceutical recipe book]
1675Dutch
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The Mirror of Alchimy
Roger Bacon
Date unknown
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
Charles Mackay
Date unknown
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Rasaśāstra, circa 1650-1799
1650Sanskrit
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[Alchemical treatise]
1737German
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Viridarium regale
1676Greek
- Read free
[Alchemical compilation]
1750French
- Read free
[Italian alchemical miscellany]
1550Italian
- Read free

Musæum hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissimè erudiens, quo pacto summa illa veraque lapidis philosophici medicina, qua res omnes qualemcunque defectum patientes, instaurantur, inveniri & haberi queat. Continens tractatus chimicos XXI. præstantissimos, quorem nomina & seriem vaersa pagella indicabit. In gratiam filiorum doctrinæ, quibus germanicum idoma ignotum est, latina lingua ornatum.
1678Latin
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The Alchemist
Ben Jonson
Date unknown
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De arte cabalistica, seu De magisterio magno philosophorum ... [etc.]
1600Latin
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[Alchemical miscellany]
1700German
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Omnia secrettus & arttes de verra alhimie, cum lavorem de tinttura alba & rubra
1700German
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[La chimie, couleurs, parfumerie]
1500French
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[Alchemical miscellany]
1400Latin
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[Alchemical compilation]
1750German
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[Alchemical treatise]
1750Italian
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Ars magna
O. V. de Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz
Date unknownFrench
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Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān. Īḍāḥ al-rumūz fī al-burhān
1600Arabic
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Hiṅgulanāmalakṣaṇa, 1763
1763Sanskrit

Il pendolo di Foucault
Umberto Eco
1980
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[Alchemical miscellany]
1675Italian

The alchemist's handbook
Frater Albertus, Albert Riedel
1974
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Barbara Zipser
2019