Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IVmicroform
Eirenaeus Philalethes, George Starkey
1677
An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's Vision
George Starkey
1678
Anima magica abscondita, or, A discourse of the universall spirit of nature, with his strange, abstruse, miraculous ascent and descent
Thomas Vaughan
1650
Astrologie theologized
Valentin Weigel
1649
Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury
John Frederick Houpreght
1680
Aurora thesaurusque philosophorum
Paracelsus
1659
Basilius Valentinus friar of the Order of St. Benedict his last will and testament
Basilius Valentinus
1657
Basilius Valentinus, a Benedictine monk, Of natural & supernatural things
Basilius Valentinus
1670
Basilius Valentinus, monk, of the Order of St. Bennet: his last will and testament
Basilius Valentinus
1658
Bob Crooks
Bob Crooks
2014
Book of the explanation of the symbols =
Muhammad ibn Umail al-Tamīmi, Theodor Abt, Salwa Fuad, Thomas Hofmeier, Wilferd Madelung
2003Arabic
CLIII aphorismei chemici
Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
1690
Cast
John Townsend, Renée Zettle-Sterling
2017
Catalogue of the second part of the library of the Rev. H. Stuckert
George A. Leavitt & Co
1882
Catalogue of works on alchemy and chemistry, exhibited at the Grolier Club, 29 East 32d St., New York, Jan. 16th to Jan. 29th, 1891
Grolier Club
1891
Centrum naturæ concentratum, or, The salt of nature regenerated
Ali Puli
1696
Certain physiological essays
Robert Boyle
1661
Chymical secrets, and rare experiments in physick & philosophy
Kenelm Digby
1683
Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgical addresses
Samuel Hartlib
1655
Collectanea chymica
Eirenaeus pseud Philaletha, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Francis Anthony, Bernard of Trevisan, George Ripley, Roger Bacon, George Starkey, Hugh Sir Plat
1684
Die Alchemie in der europäischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Christoph Meinel
1986
Die Alchemie und die Alchemisten in der Schweiz
E. Ribeaud
1896
Earth alchemy
Dominique Susani
2011
Enthusiasmus triumphatus
Henry More
1656