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
The Rosary of the philosophers
1980
The divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus
1649
The hermaphrodite child of the sun and moon
1998
The philosopher's stone
B. T. H. Cole, John Harris, S. and R. Bentley
1828
Ermippo redivivo, o sia il Metodo di prolungar la vita e il vigore : Traduzione dall'Inglese.
Joannes Heinrich Cohausen, P. F
Date unknownItalian
The alchemy of cure
Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance
Date unknown
[Alchymia]
Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān
[17--?]
[Epistaseis] 1934. S. 41-53. 8° [Kopft.]
Aristoteles P. Kuzes
####Greek
[Obra selecta]
Ramón Llull
S.XVIILatin
[Quaestiones et Responsa chymica]
Michał Sędziwój
[16..]
Art.I. - Alchemy and alchemists.
1856French
Artis avriferae qvam chemiam vocant ...
1593Latin
Auriferae artis
1572Latin
Chymische Versuche
1767German
De alchemie, de steen der wijzen en Antoon van Dijck
1991Dutch
Hermetischer Rosenkrantz
1659German
Huang ting jing zhu jie
1877Chinese
Le Triomphe hermetique, ou, La pierre philosophale victorieuse
1689
Musaeum hermeticum, reformatum et amplificatum
1678Latin
Rosarivm novvm olympicvm et benedictvm, das ist, Ein newer Gebenedeyter philosophischer Rosengart
1608German
Theatrum chemicum
1659Latin
Theatrum chemicum
1661Latin
Theatrvm chemicvm, praecipvos selectorvm avctorvm tractatvs de chemiae et lapidis philosophici
1659Latin
Theatrvm chemicvm, praecipvos selectorvm avctorvm tractatvs de chemiae et lapidis philosophici
1602Latin