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
Alchemy in the nineteenth century
Helena P. Blavatsky
1891
Alchemy under James IV of Scotland
John Read
1938
Alchemy, magic and miracles in the Napolitan medical culture in the Aragonise age (1442-1502)
Gianni Iacovelli
1983
Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology
Marie-Louise von Franz
1980
Alquimia
2005
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
Diane Ackerman
2004
An encyclopaedia of occultism : a compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, magic, demonology, spiritism, mysticism, and metaphysics.
Lewis Spence
1974
Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica
2000
Bibliotheca chemica
Royal College of Science and Technology. Andersonian Library
1906
Chemistry, alchemy and the new philosophy, 1550 - 1700
Allen G. Debus
1987
Das 21. Jahrhundert
Thomas Kellein
1993
De Vega's formula X
De Vega
1927
Doctor Heinrich Khunrath
James Brown Craven
1997
Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart
Tara Bennett-Goleman
2001
Fakes!?
Marco Beretta, Maria Conforti
2014
From Alchemy to Chemistry
John Read
2011
From Alchemy to IPO
Cynthia Robbins-Roth
2000
Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad
Frances A. Yates
2014
Hermetic fictions : alchemy and irony in the modern novel
David Meakin
1995
Hermeticism and the Renaissance : intellectual history and the occult in early modern Europe
Ingrid Merkel, Allen G. Debus
1988
Hermeticism and the scientific revolution
Robert S. Westman, J. E. McGuire
1977
Intellectual cantilenae in nine triads upon the resurrection of the Phoenix
Michael Maier
1997
John Dee's conversations with angels
Deborah E Harkness
1999
Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447 1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, R. Bouthoorn
2005