Tradition 04 of 35
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
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- 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
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Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atqve technica historia
Robert Fludd
1617Latin
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Alchemy: ancient and modern
Herbert Stanley Redgrove
1911
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Swedenborg, a Hermetic philosopher
Ethan Allan Hitchcock, University of Glasgow. Library
1858
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A new light of alchymie
Michał Sędziwój, Gerhard Dorn, John French, 1493-1541. De natura rerum Paracelsus, Paracelsus
1650
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The mystery and romance of alchemy and pharmacy
Charles John Samuel Thompson
1897
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Treatise on the great art
Antoine-Joseph Pernety
1898
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Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)
Anke Timmermann
2013
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Victorian Alchemy
Eleanor Dobson
2022
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Les origines de l'alchemie
Marcellin Berthelot, University of Glasgow. Library
1885French
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Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre
Giovanni Battista Nazari
1599Italian
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Jacob's Ladder
Marina Aptekman
2011
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Basil Valentine his Triumphant chariot of antimony
Basilius Valentinus, Alison Kelly, Theodor Kerckring, alchemist. Vray livre de la pierre philosophale. English Synesius, Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais|* Synesius of Cyrene
1678
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Die alchemie
Gottlieb Latz, Gottlieb. nr2006025695 Latz, Gottlieb. [from old catalog] Latz
1869German
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A select bibliography of chemistry, 1492-1892
Henry Carrington Bolton
1893
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition
Frances Amelia Yates
1964
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The book of quinte essence or the fifth being
Frederick James Furnivall, Trismegistus Hermes, Frederick James 1825-1910 Furnivall, Royal College of Surgeons of England
1866ENM
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Red Book of Appin
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
1863
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Ripley reviv'd
Eirenaeus pseud Philalethes, Eirenaeus Philalethes
1678
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The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross
John Heydon, Frederick Talbot
1664
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Azoth et ignis, das ist, Das wahre elementarische Wasser und Feuer, oder, Mercurius philosophorum
Hermann Fictuld, Johann Gottfried Krügner
1749German
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The last vvill and testament of Basil Valentine, monke of the Order of St. Bennet
Basilius Valentinus
1671
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Triumph Wagen Antimonii
Basilius Valentinus, Theodor Kerckring, Arthur Edward Waite, Joseph Bouleur
1604
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Five treatises of the philosophers stone
Henry Pinnell, Guglielmo Gratarolo, Florian Raudorf, John Sawtre, King of Portugal Afonso V
1651
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Anima magica abscondita, or, A discourse of the universall spirit of nature
Thomas Vaughan
1650