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
Enthusiasmus triumphatus, or, A discourse of the nature, causes, kinds and cure, of enthusiasme
Henry More
1656
Explorations in Daoism
Ho Peng-Yoke, John P. C Moffett, Cho Sungwu
2007Chinese
Fasiculus chemicus
Arthur Dee
1650
Five treatises of the philosophers stone
H. P
1652
Four books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld
Johann Seger Weidenfeld
1685
Frier Bacon his discovery of the miracles of art, nature, and magick
Roger Bacon
1659
Gender and scientific discourse in early modern European culture
Kathleen P Long
2010
George Starkey's pill vindicated from the unlearned alchymist and all other pretenders
George Starkey
1660
Great clarity
Fabrizio Pregadio
2006
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus his Divine pymander
Hermes Trismegistus
1657
Janus faces of genius
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
1991
John Dee on astronomy
John Dee, J.L Heilbron, Wayne Shumaker
1978
La vertu et propriété de la quinte essence de toutes choses
Johannes de Rupescissa
1581
Libellus de alchimia
Albertus Magnus
1958
Lingua tersancta, or, A most sure and compleat allegorick dictionary to the holy language of the spirit
William Freke
1703
Literatures of alchemy in medieval and early modern England
Eoin Bentick, JSTOR
2022
Lives of the alchemystical philosophers
Arthur Edward Waite
1888
Magnalia naturae
Johann Joachim Becher, Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection
1680
Magnalia naturæ, or, The philosophers-stone lately exposed to public sight and scale
Johann Joachim Becher
1680
Magnalia naturæ: or, The truth of the philosophers-stone asserted
Johann Joachim Becher
1680
Marvell and alchemy
Lyndy Abraham
1990
Materiae signa
Edward Colonna
1888
Medicina practica: or, a practical physick
William Salmon, Paracelsus, Hermes Trismegistus, Artephius, Nicolas Flamel, al-Umaw.̄ Khālid ibn Yazīd, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Roger Bacon, George Ripley, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Ramon Llull
1692
Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London
Lauren Kassell
2005