Tradition 04 of 35
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 4,255
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 63%
- 2,689 with public full text
- With covers
- 68%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,059
- Metadata match180
- Query match1,010
- 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
- Alchemy1.7K
- Early works to 1800796
- History239
- Chemistry237
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)229
- occultism200
- Alchimie160
- Medicine152
- Alchemie141
- Philosophy121
- Hermetism119
- Social Sciences110
- Magic102
- Art101
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric96
- Arts and Humanities86
- Literature69
- Early works to 190062
- Rosicrucians58
- Astrology56
- Hermeticism51
- Text51
- Archeology50
- Art history46
Top languages
- German1,278 · 30%
- English884 · 21%
- Latin799 · 19%
- French402 · 9%
- NOT356 · 8%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus273 in this tradition294 books
- Trismegistus Hermes76 in this tradition90 books
- Basilius Valentinus52 in this tradition53 books
- Michael Maier48 in this tradition54 books
- University of Glasgow. Library39 in this tradition73 books
- Ramon Llull36 in this tradition43 books
- Johann Joachim Becher35 in this tradition36 books
- George Starkey34 in this tradition36 books
- Jābir ibn Ḥayyān32 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer29 books
- Johann Rudolf Glauber27 in this tradition30 books
- Roger Bacon27 in this tradition30 books
4,255 books
Gründliche Außlegung und warhafftige Erklerung der Rythmorum Fratris Basilii Valentini Monachi Vonn der Materia, ihrer Geburt, Alter, Farb, Qualitet und Namen, des grossen Steins der uhralten Philosophen
Conrad Schüler
1608German
Hermanni Conringii De hermetica medicina libri duo.
Hermann Conring
1669Latin
Hermetischer Wunderbaum
1635German
Hermetisches A.B.C. derer ächten Weisen alter und neuer Zeiten vom Stein der Weisen
1778German
Herrn Blaise Vigenere Abhandlung von Feuer und Salz
Blaise de Vigenère
1782German
Het zout in alchemie en chemie
Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zoutindustrie / Hengelo, Robert James Forbes
1968Dutch
Hogere sferen
1993Dutch
Hvernig alkemía tengist skapandi listgreinum
Frosti Örn Gnarr Gunnarsson
2009Icelandic
I dialoghi sull'ermetismo
Giuliano Kremmerz
1990Italian
Iets over de alchemie
Eliza Laurillard
1871Dutch
Il cantico della materia
Andreea Chiricheș, Donata Bulotta
2025Italian
Il mito dell'alchimia
Mircea Eliade
1968Italian
Il tesoro degli alchimisti
Jacques Sadoul
1972Italian
In hoc volumine de alchemia, continentur haec
Jabir ibn Hayyan, Roger Bacon, Richard of Wendover, Calidis. Liber secretorum alchemiae, Hermes Trismegistus
1541Latin
Incipit liber Geber
Geber
1475Latin
Io. Bap. Portae Neopolitani De distillatione lib. IX. Quibus certa methodo, multipliciqúe artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuiuslibet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfectè docetur
Giambattista della Porta
1608Latin
Io. Francisci Pici Mirandvlae et concordiae domini, De avro libri tres. Opvs sane avrevm in qvo de auro tum aestimando, tum conficiendo, tum utendo ingeniose et docte disseritur
Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola
1587Latin
Ioannis Avrelii Avgvrelli p. ariminensis Chrysopoeiae libri III et Geronticon liber primvs
Giovanni Aurelio Augurello
1518Latin
Ioannis Hasfurti medici ac astrologi praestantissimi, De cognoscendis, et medendis morbis ex corporum coelestium positione Libri IIII
Johannes Virdung, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Galen. On prognosis, Hermes Trismegistus, Burndy Library
1584Latin
Iodoci Greveri presbyteri secretvm, et Alani philosophi dicta de lapide philosophico
Jodocus Grewer, Alain of Lille, Justus à Balbian
1599Latin
Iohann-Pharam. Rhumelii. Opuscula chymico-magico-medica
Johann Pharamund Rummel
1635German
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Ester S. B. Ferreira, Emma Helfrich, Ingolf Löffler, Anika Retzmann, Annemarie E. Kramell, Christoph Herm
2025German
Johann Kunckels ... Oeffentliche Zuschrifft von dem Phosphoro Mirabili
Johannes Kunckel
1680German
Johannis Conradi Barchusen Elementa chemiae
Johann Conrad Barchusen
1718Latin