Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
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- Books
- 4,074
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 61%
- 2,499 with public full text
- With covers
- 67%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,013
- Metadata match182
- Query match873
- Source classification (retained through merging)6
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
- Alchemy1.6K
- Early works to 1800770
- History234
- Chemistry231
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)229
- occultism197
- Alchimie160
- Medicine150
- Alchemie141
- Philosophy120
- Social Sciences110
- Hermetism109
- Art101
- Magic97
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric91
- Arts and Humanities86
- Literature69
- Early works to 190062
- Rosicrucians57
- Astrology56
- Hermeticism51
- Text51
- Archeology50
- Art history46
Top languages
- German1,160 · 28%
- English882 · 22%
- Latin783 · 19%
- French392 · 10%
- NOT344 · 8%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus272 in this tradition292 books
- Trismegistus Hermes75 in this tradition89 books
- Basilius Valentinus49 in this tradition50 books
- Michael Maier48 in this tradition53 books
- University of Glasgow. Library39 in this tradition71 books
- Ramon Llull36 in this tradition42 books
- Johann Joachim Becher34 in this tradition35 books
- George Starkey33 in this tradition35 books
- Jābir ibn Ḥayyān32 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer29 books
- Johann Rudolf Glauber27 in this tradition30 books
- Roger Bacon27 in this tradition29 books
4,074 books
Della tramvtatione metallica sogni tre
Giovanni Battista Nazari
1572Italian
Die Alchemie
Heinrich Wilhelm Schaefer
1887German
Die Alchemie der Metalle
Henk Leene
2008German
El mayor thesoro
George Starkey, Eirenaeus Philalethes, Theophilo
1727Latin
L' arte del sole e della luna
Chiara Crisciani, Michela Pereira
1996Italian
À la découverte de l'alchimie
Bernard Roger
1988French
A history of magic and experimental science during the first thirteen centuries of our era. 2. printing with corrections
Lynn Thorndike
1929
Alchemical coins and medals
Vladimír Karpenko
1998
Alquimia y ocultismo
Víctor Zalbidea
1973Spanish
Emblems and alchemy
1998
Hermes Trismegistus de triginta sexdecanis
Hermes Trismegistus
1994Latin
Jacob Böhme und die Alchymisten
Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless
1870German
Monas hieroglyphica
John Dee
1564French
Sciences secrètes
A. S. Uvarov, A. Ladrague
1870Spanish
A breefe avnswere of Iosephvs Qvercetanvs to the exposition of Iacobus Aubertus Vindonis, concerning the original, and causes of mettalles, set foorth against chimists
Joseph DuChesne
1591
A breefe avnswere of Iosephvs Qvercetanvs to the exposition of Iacobus Aubertus Vindonis, concerning the original, and causes of mettalles, set foorth against chimists
Joseph Du Chesne
1591
A breif natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses
George Starkey
1669
A breviary of alchemy, or, A commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation
George Starkey
1678
A breviary of alchemy, or, A commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation
Eirenaeus Philalethes
1678
A compleat course of chymistry
George Wilson
1699
A dictionary of alchemical imagery
Lyndy Abraham
1998
A golden and blessed casket of nature's marvels
Benedictus Figulus, Arthur Edward Waite
1893
A history of magic, witchcraft & the occult
Suzannah Lipscomb
2020
A hundred and fouretene experiments and cures of the famous physitian Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus; translated out of the Germane tongue into the Latin. Whereunto is added certaine excellent and profitable workes by B.G. a Portu Aquitano. Also certaine secrets of Isacke Hollandus concerning the vegetall and animall worke. Also the spagericke antidotarie for gunne-shot of Iosephus Quirsitanus. Collected by Iohn Hester
Paracelsus
1596