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
Melancholys bane: or, Choice, pleasant, and profitable recreations
Edward Fountaine
1654
Metallographia, or, A history of metals
John Webster
1671
Mr. Culpepper's treatise of aurum potabile
Nicholas Culpeper
1656
Natural alchemy
J. M Forrest
2014
Nicholas Flammel, his exposition of the hieroglyphicall figures which he caused to bee painted vpon an arch in St. Innocents church-yard, in Paris
Nicolas Flamel
1624
Northern alchemy
Christine De Luca
2020
Observations upon Anthroposophia theomagica, and Anima magica abscondita
Henry More
1650
Of natural & supernatural things
Basilius Valentinus
1670
Of the chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation of metals & minerals
Paracelsus, Stephen Trigg, Ramon Llull, Andreas Tentzel, Robert Turner
1657
One hundred fifty three chymical aphorisms
Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
1688
Oriental alchemy
Masumi Chkashige
1974
Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus
Otto Tachenius, J. W
1677
Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus discovering the ancient foundation of the late viperine salt
Otto Tachenius
1690
Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus, which discovers the ancient foundations of the late viperine salt
Otto Tachenius
1677
Otto Tachenius his clavis to the ancient hippocratical physick or medicine
Otto Tachenius
1677
Paracelsus his Aurora, & Treasure of the philosophers
Paracelsus, Johann Siebmacher, Giles Calvert, James Howell, Gerhard Dorn, Thordarson Collection
1659
Penotus palimeis, or, The alchymists enchiridion
Bernard Georges Penot
1692
Promethean ambitions
William R Newman
2004
Rhythm alchemy
Martin Ivanov
2014
Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works
Eirenaeus Philalethes, William Cooper
1678
Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works
George Starkey
1678
Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy
Various Authors
2021
Sanguis naturæ, or, A manifest declaration of the sanguine and solar congealed liquor of nature
Christoph Brummet
1696
Searching for order
Anna Pavord
2005