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
Historisch-kritische Untersuchung der Alchemie
Johann Christian Wiegleb
1777German
Historisch-kritische untersuchung der alchemie, oder der eingebildeten goldmacherkunst
Johann Christian Wiegleb
1777German
HonorI Philaretis Hermopolitani. Jäger-Lust, oder, Philosophischer-Nymphenfang
Thomas von Rappolt
1635German
I filosofi del fuoco
Elio Occhipinti
2009Italian
I misteri dell'alchimia e la triangolazione Bologna-Praga-Santiago di Compostella
Morena Poltronieri, Ernesto Fazioli
2000Italian
I secreti de la signora Isabella Cortese, ne'quali si contengono cose minerali, medicinali, arteficiose & alchimiche, & molte de l'arte profum- atoria, appartenenti a ogni gra Signora
Isabella Cortese
1565Italian
I territori dell'alchimia
Roberto Ortoleva, Ferdinando Testa
1999Italian
Iacobi Avberti Vindonis De metallorum ortu & causis contra chemistas breuis & dilucida explicatio
Jacques Aubert
1575Latin
Icon philosophiae occultae, sive, Vera methodus componendi magnum antiquorum philosophorum lapidem
Claude Germain
1672Latin
Idaea harmonicae correspondentiae superiorum cum inferioribus, das ist, Fürbild der gleichförmigen Ubereinstimmung der obern Kräfften mit denen untern dess firmamentischen Himmels inn der Ein- und Aussstrahlung der Gewäschsen, Thieren und Mineralen
Stanislaus Reinhard Acxtelmeier
1706German
Il Kybalion
Tre iniziati
1944Italian
Il conte di Gabalì
Nicolas Pierre Henri Montfaucon de Villars
1986Italian
Il libro delle meraviglie
Iohannes Trithemius
2012Italian
Il mito dell'alchimia ; seguito da L'*alchimia asiatica
Mircea Eliade
2014Italian
Il pellicano e la clessidra
Ciro Di Maria
2002Italian
Il tesoro della vita humana
Leonardo Fioravanti
1570Italian
In hoc volumine de alchemia continentur haec
Geber
1541Latin
Incipit liber Geber
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
1475Latin
Iniziazione all'ermetica
Franz Bardon
1978Italian
Institutiones chimicae prodromae
Johann Joachim Becher
1664Latin
Institutiones chimicæ prodromæ, i. e., Joannis Joachim Becheri Oedipus chimicus obscuriorum terminorum & principiorum chimicorum mysteria aperiens & resolvens
Johann Joachim Becher
1664Latin
Introductio in alchimiam
Georg Wolffgang Wedel, Hermes Trismegistus
1705Latin
Introductio in diuinam chemiae artem integra magistri Boni Lombardi Ferrariensis physici
Petrus Bonus
1572Latin
Introduction in alchimiam
Georg Wolffgang Wedel
1706Latin