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
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Separatio elementorum ; Reductio et sublimatio
Isaac Newton
1660Latin
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Dhakhīrat al-Iskandar al-Malik ibn Fīliqs Dhī al-Qarnayn
1700Arabic
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Fragment of the Picatrix.
1300Latin
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Livre de raison
1600French
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Mellon MS 2, Alchemical miscellany
1350Latin
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Mellon MS 25, Astrological miscellany
1505Latin
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Mellon MS 28, Alchemical miscellany
1525Latin
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Mellon MS 30, Alchemical miscellany
1528German
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Mellon MS 32, Alchemical miscellany
1542Greek
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Mellon MS 4, Medical and alchemical recipes
1385Italian
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Secreta secretorum
1486Latin
The occult, witchcraft & magic
Christopher Dell
2016
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Thesaurus Thesaurorum
1580Latin
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[Collection of alchemical works on distillation and fermentation]
1750French
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[Collection of medical and magical treatises]
1600Arabic
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Basil Valentine, his triumphant chariot of antimony with annotations of Theodore Kirkringius. M.D
Basilius Valentinus
1678
Psychology and Alchemy
Carl Gustav Jung, R.F.C Hull
1980
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Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) 1493-1541 [microform]
Edward Schubert
1893
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Voarchadvmia contra alchi'miam: ars distincta ab archimi'a, & sophia: cum additionibus: proportionibus: numeris: & figuris opportunis.
Joannes, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Howard Coppuck Levis, Giovanni Agostino Pantheo
1530Latin
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Asrār al-Aṭibbā
Taqī Ḥaydar ibn Ḥakīm Sayyid Riẓā Ḥusein Balgarāmī author
1268Urdu
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Contro l'alchimia e gli alchimisti palinodia dell'Argonautica di Angelo Ingegneri. Con la stessa Argonautica, dichiarata da copiose postille del propio autore. Al molto illustre, e reverendiss. signore monsignor Girolamo Fosco prothonotario apostolico, intimo cameriere, et elemosiniere di N. S
Angelo Ingegneri
1606Italian
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Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-falsafīyah wa al-natījah al-ʻalīyah
Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh Jaldakī, Shams al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās
1562Arabic
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[Miscellany of scientific treatises]
Arnaldus de Villanova, Geber, Ramon Llull
1450Latin
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Mellon MS 15, Alchemical and medical miscellany
1475German