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
A hundred and fourtene experiments and cures of the famous phisition Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus, translated out of the Germane tongue into the Latine. Whereunto is added certaine excellent and profitable workes by B.G., a Portu Aquitano. Also certaine secretes of Isack Hollandus concerning the vegetall and animall worke. Also the spagerick antidotarie for gunshot of Iosephus Quirsitanus. Collected by I.H
Paracelsus
1583
A new light of alchymie
Michael Sendivogius
1650
A professor of alchemy (Denis Zachaire)
Percy Ross
1887
A reuelation of the secret spirit
Giovan Battista Agnello
1623
A treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus, and Crollius
J. H
1671
Accidental alchemy
Alan Denson
2003
Acta germanica, or, The literary memoirs of Germany, etc
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1743
Alchemie
Johannes Fabricius
2003
Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts
Harald Meller, Alfred Reichenberger, Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich
2016
Alchemy
Ailsa Abraham
2014
Alchemy
Johannes Fabricius
1976
Alchemy
Rory Sutherland
2021
Alchemy
Jay Ramsay
1997
Alchemy and Psychotherapy
Dale Mathers
2014
Alchemy and alchemists
Charles Thompson
2002
Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire
Tara Nummedal
2007
Alchemy and early modern chemistry
Allen G. Debus
2004
Alchemy and the occult
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Ian MacPhail, Laurence C Witten, Richard Pachella
1968
Alchemy for Managers
Tom Reeves
2009
Alchemy, the philosopher's stone
Allison P. Coudert
1980
An appendix to The unlearned alchimist
George Kendall
1664
An easie introduction to the philosphers magical gold
George Thor
1667
An essay concerning adepts, or, A resolution of this inquiry
Philadept
1698
An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV
George Starkey
1677