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
Era
Chymisticum artificium naturae, theoricum et practicum. Cuius summarium versa pagella clariùs indicabit
Gerhard Dorn
1568Latin
Clavis artis des berühmten Juden und Rabbi Zoroasters
1738German
Coelum philosophorum
1739German
Commentarius de praecipuis generibus diuinationum, in quo a prophetiis autoritate diuina traditis et à physicis coniecturis, discernuntur artes et imposturae diabolicae, atque observationes natae ex superstitione et cum hac conjunctae. Et monstrantur fontes et causae physicarum praedictionum. Diabolicae vero ac superstitiosae confutatae damnantur
Caspar Peucer, Burndy Library
1572Greek
Compendivm alchimiæ ... cum dictionario eiusdem artis, atque de metallorum tinctura præparationeque eorundem libello, ante annos DXX eodem authore conscripto. Adiecimus eiusdem compendij per Arnoldvm de Villanova explicationem. Cum tractatu de salium aluminumqúe varietate, compositione et vsu, scriptoris incerti. Omnia nunc primum in lucem edita
John of Garland, Arnaldus de Villa Nova
1560Latin
Continuatio centuriarum
Johann Rudolf Glauber
1668Latin
Cours pratique d'alchimie
René Schwaeblé
1908French
D.O.M.A. Alchymia Andreae Libavii, recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus et experimentis nonnullis; tum commentario medico physico-chymico: qui exornatus est variis instrumentorum chymicorum picturis; partim aliunde translatis, partim planè novis
Andreas Libavius
1606Latin
De Alchimia Opvscvla complvra vetervm philosophorum, quorum catalogum sequens pagella indicabit
1550Latin
De alchemie van de natuur
Louis Kevran
1978Dutch
De alchemie van het ik
Max Croiset
1946Dutch
De his que̜ mundo mirabiliter eveniunt
Claudius Coelestinus
1542Latin
De his quăe mundo mirabiliter evenivnt: vbi de sensuum erroribus, et potentijs animăe, ac de influentijs caelorum
Claudius Coelestinus, Roger Bacon, Oronce Finé
1542Latin
De moderne alchemie
Jules-Emile Verschaffelt
1935Dutch
De natvrae lvce physica, ex Genesi desvmpta, iuxta sententiam Theophrasti Paracelsi ... tractatvs. Cui annexa est modesta quaedam admonitio ad Thomam Erastvm ... de retractandis calumnijs et conuitijs in Paracelsum et suos perperam ac immeritò datis in lucem per quatuor tomos, De noua medicina
Gerhard Dorn, Paracelsus, Thomas Erastus
1583Latin
De transformatie van suiker in anilinekleurstof
P.F. van Hamel Roos
1881Dutch
De veritate et antiqvitate artis chemicae et pvlveris sive medicinae philosophorvm vel avri potabilis, déque illius materiâ et compositione, eiúsque mirâ vi in tria rerum genera animale, vegetale et minerale, testimonia et theoremata, ex variis auctoribus sacris, theologis, iurisperitis, medicis, philosophis, & poëtis
Robert Duval
1593Latin
Der zum andern mahl entlarvte Adeptus realis, wie er sich als ein Ineptus realis so wohl durch seine herausgegebene Schmäh-Schrifft, als auch durch seine bissherige Process-Krähmerey der Welt gar kenntlich gemacht
1716German
Des Englischen Grafens von S*** experimentirte Kunst-Stücke oder Sammlung einiger rarer, curieuser und geheimer Chymischer Processe und andere höchst-nützliche Arcana in welchen die Kunst
1731German
Die Alchemie in älterer un neuerer Zeit
Hermann Kopp
1962German
Die Alchemie, der patriarchale Schöpfungswahn und die Politik des Teile und Herrsche
Gerhard Kilga
1997German
Die Theorie und Praktik des Gold- und Silber-Baums von einem ungenannten Philosophen
1787German
Die frühromantische Theorie der Mischung
Petr Leonidovitch Kapitsa
1968German
Die älteste Alchemie
Ingeborg Hammer Jensen
1921