Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
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- Books
- 4,074
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
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- 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
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Gebri arabis philosophi ac alchimistae acutissimi, De alchemia traditio summae perfectionis in duos libros divisa
Geber, Lazarus Zetzner
1598Latin
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Institutiones chimicae prodromae, id est, Joannis Joachimi Becheri Spirensis ... Oedipus chimicus obscuriorum terminorum & principiorum chimicorum, mysteria aperiens & resolvens
Johann Joachim Becher
1664Latin
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Lvsvs serivs
Michael Maier
1616Latin
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Mineralogische, chemische und alchymistische Briefe
J. F. Henckel, University of Glasgow. Library
1794German
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Morieni Romani, quondam eremitae Hierosolymitani, De transfiguratione metallorum, & occulta, summaque antiquorum philosophorum medicina, libellus, nusquam hactenus in lucem editus
Morienus Romanus
1559Latin
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Prognosticon Theologicon, oder, Theologische Weissagung vom jüngsten Tage
Georg Rost, Paul Nagel
1621German
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Sinceri Renati Sämtliche Philosophisch- und Chymische Schrifften, als: I. Die wahrhaffte und vollkommene Bereitung des Philosophischen Steins, &c. II. Theo-Philosophia Theoretico-Practica, oder der wahre Grund Göttlicher und natürlicher Erkänntniss &c. III. Goldene Qvelle der Natur und Kunst, bestehend in lauter Experimentis und chymischen Handgriffen &c
S. R, Samuel Richter
1741German
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Traité de la poudre de projection, divisé en deux lettres. Analyse tirée de l'Ecriture Sainte. Moiens pour parvenir à la poudre de projection par l'humide substantiel premier principe
B. D. L
1707French
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Codicillus seu vade mecum Raymundi Lulli philosophi doctissimi
Ramon Llull
1572Latin
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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: Gold zu machen ...
Graf von S***
1731German
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Hermes curiosus, sive, Inventa et experimenta physico-chymica nova
Christian Adolph Balduin
1680Latin
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Joh. Andreae Stisseri De variis erroribus, chemiae ignorantia in medicina commissis dissertatio epistolaris ad Godefr. Guilielmum Leibnitium
Johann Andreas Stisser
1700Latin
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L' or et la transmutation des métaux
Cyprien Théodore Tiffereau, Adolphe Franck
1889French
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Les secrets les plus cachés de la philosophie des anciens, découverts et expliqués, à la suite d'une histoire des curieuses
Francesco Maria Pompeo Colonna
1762French
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Nafāyis al-funūn
Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Sakkākī
1881Persian
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Natur-Kündigung der Metallen [And] Kurtzer Anhang zu vorigem Probier-Büchlein
Johann Joachim Becher
1705German
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Raymundi Lulli doctissimi et celeberrimi philosophi De secretis naturae, seu De quinta essentia liber vnus
Ramon Llull
1567Latin
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The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius
Ovid, Lucius Apuleius, Ed T.E. Page, W.; Gaselee Adlington, William Adlington, Stephen Gaselee, William Adlingotn, William Howe, Abraham Veale, Conrad Seiler, George Saintsbury, Apuleius, Charles Whibley, W. Adlington And S. Gaselee, Thomas Taylor, Mary Tighe, Hudson Gurney, Robert Graves, John C. Griffiths, Jacob van der Vliet, Ĭosyp Kobiv, I︠U︡riĭ T︠S︡ymbali︠u︡k, Jean de Montlyard, Filippo Beroaldo, Giovanni Andrea Bussi, Aristotle, Pietro Balbi, Konrad Sweynheim, Arnold Pannartz, Filiberto Remigio conte Costa della Trinità, Adriana R. Salem, Boies Penrose, Hermes Trismegistus, Albinus, Pierre Médan, Lucius of Madaura, August Rode, Carlos García Gual, ʻAlī Fahmī Khashīm, Ermil Ivanovich Kostrov, J. A. Maury, James Morwood, S. ʻEli, Rudolf Helm, Paulus Thomas, Edward Carpenter, W. H. D. Rouse, Paul Carus, Anna Morena Mozzillo, Alejandro Coroleu, Antonio Betancor, Gervaso Orefice, Eduard Norden, L. Osborn, Charles Stuttaford, Jessie Mothersole, Erich Neumann, Yoram Bronowski, Jean de La Fontaine, John Lockman, Claude-Ignace Brugière de Barante, Antoine-Denis Bailly, Raphael, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Karl Weyman, A. J. Pons, Walter Pater, Laurel Press, Otto Jahn, John Lyde Wilson, Lucio Apuleyo, Lucio Apuleio, Apuleio, Marina Cavalli, Costanza Viareggi, Agnolo Firenzuola, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Nicolò Zoppino, Vicentio
1469
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Ars chemica, quod sit licita recte exercentibus, probationes doctissimorum iurisconsultorum. Septem tractatus seu capitula Hermetis Trismegisti, aurei. Eiusdem tabula smaragdina, in ipsius sepulchro inuenta, cum commento Hortulani [i.e. John Garland] Philosophi
John Garland
1566Latin
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Aureum Seculum patefactum
Alitophilus Chrysander
1706German
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Contra l'alchimia, e gli alchimisti palinodia Dell'argonautica
Angelo Ingegneri
1606Italian
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Cours de philosophie herm©♭tique ou d'alchimie
L.-P. François Cambriel
1843French
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D. Joh. Christoph. von Ettner und Eittritz ... Vade et occide Cain, oder
Johann Christoph von Ettner
1724German
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Das ende des zeitalters der alchemie und der beginn der iatrochemischen periode
Willy Luzi
1892German