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
Era
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Of Natural and Supernatural Things
Basilius Valentinus, Daniel Cable
Date unknown
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Opera del sapientissimo Ermete Trismegisto della generatione del lapide con l'espositione di Moise, Primate Hebreo, tradotta dal latino
Trismegistus Hermes
1700Italian
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Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz
Salomon Trismosin
1550German
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The Alchemist's Secret
Isabel Cecilia Williams
Date unknown
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Cabala chymica. Concordantia chymica. Azot philosoph[orum] solificatum. Drey vnterschiedliche, nützliche, vnd zuvor nie aussgegangene Tractätlein, ohn welcher Hülff niemandt in Ewigkeit Chymiam veram verstehen, noch das summum Arcanum erlernen wirdt. In welcher I. Der rechte Grunde vnnd Fundament aller natürlichen vnd vbernatürlichen Dingen erkläret wirdt. Im II. Viel schöner Vergleichungen vnnd Vbereynstimmungen etlicher alten vnnd newen philosophischen Schrifften, von wahrer Bereytung dess philosophischen Steins, colligiret von H. Alexandro von Süchten ... derer aller Inhalt post Praefationem zu finden. Im IIII. Augenscheinliche Erklärung aller vnd jeder Particularitäten, fürnembsten Handtgriffen vnnd Vortheylen, ad conficiendum Azot Philosoph[orum] necessaria, so Georgius Clettus ... selbst inn Praxi wahr oder falsch befunden, von jhm einem guten Freunde in Missiven communiciert
Georg Klet
1606German
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La fontaine des amoureux de science composée par Jehan de La Fontaine de Valenciennes, en le comté de Henault, poème hermétique du XVe siècle publié par Ach. Genty
1381-?; Genty Jean de la Fontaine
1861French
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Una canzone capodistriana del secolo XIV sulla pietra filosofale
O Zenatti
1890Italian
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Axiomes de medicinne
1750French
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Beinecke MS 650, Pharmacological etc. miscellany
1400Czech
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De alchimia tractatus
Bern Dibner
1700Latin
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Dell'alchimia: opra [sic], che con fondamenti di bvona filosofia, e perspicuità ammirabile tratta della realtà, difficoltà e nobiltà di tanta scienza, delle marauiglie della natura, dell' arte, e de' metalli, e delle regole, e methodo da offeruarsi nella compositione dell' oro alchimico
Giacinto Grimaldi
1645Italian
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Die alchemie in älterer und neuerer zeit. Ein beitrag zur culturgeschichte
Hermann Kopp
1886German
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Mellon MS 9, Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal
1440Arabic
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Ars et theoria transmvtationis metallicae cum Voarchadúmia, proportionibus, numeris, et iconibus rei accommodis illustrata
Giovanni Agostino Pantheo
1550Latin
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Commentarius de praecipuis generibus diuinationum, in quo a prophetiis autoritate diuina traditis et à physicis coniecturis, discernuntur artes et imposturae diabolicae, atque observationes natae ex superstitione et cum hac conjunctae. Et monstrantur fontes et causae physicarum praedictionum. Diabolicae vero ac superstitiosae confutatae damnantur
Burndy Library
1572Latin
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Pretiosa margarita novella de thesavro, ac pretiosissimo philosophorvm lapide
Pietro Antonio Boni
1546Latin
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Raimundi Lulii ... De secretis naturæ, siue quinta essentia libri duo. His accesserunt, Alberti Magni ... de mineralibus et rebus metallicis libri quinque. Quæ omnia solerti cura repurgata rerum naturæ studiosis recens publicata sunt per M. Gualtherum H. Ryff
Ramon Llull
1541Latin
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Avreoli Philippi Theophrasti Paracelsi philosophorum atque medicorum excellentissimi De summis naturæ mysterijs libri tres, lectu perquàm vtiles atque iucundi
Gerhard Dorn
1570German
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Hortulus hermeticus flosculis philosophorum cupro incisis conformatus, et breuissimis versiculis explicatus. Quo chymiatriae studiosi pro philotheca vti, fessique laboratorium ministri recreari possint
Daniel Stolcius
1627Latin
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Kamaratna
Baṃbaī : Khemarāja Śrīkr̥ṣṇadāsa
1899Sanskrit
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Sammlung von mehr als hundert wahrhaften Transmutations-Geschichten, oder ganz ausserordentlich merkwürdige Beyspiele von Verwandlung der Metallen in Gold oder Silber nebst der Art und Weise wie damit verfahren worden
Siegmund Heinrich Güldenfalk
1784German
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Anima Magica Abscondita
1650
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Die himmlische und hermetische Perle, oder der [sic] göttliche und natürliche Tincutr der Weisen
Siegmund Heinrich Güldenfalk
1785German
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Mellon MS 24, Alchemical miscellany
1505Italian