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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Via sapientiæ trivna Henrici Nollii Theosophi & Medici Professoris Steinfurtensis
Heinrich Nolle
1620Latin
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Adeptus ineptus, oder Entdeckung der falsch berühmten Kunst Alchimie genannt
Georg Wilhelm Wegener
1744German
Real Alchemy
Robert Allen Bartlett, Capt. Robert Allen Bartlett
2006
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Rerum memorabilium libri duo
Heinrich Salmuth
1612Latin
The Tarot
Robert Place, Robert M Place
2005
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Chemical observations
1750
Miracles and wonders in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period
Albrecht Classen
2025
The Black Arts
Richard Cavendish
1967
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[Occult and alchemical compilation]
1750
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Mr. Culpepper's Treatise Of Aurum Potabile
1656
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Tractatus de formulis
1766French
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Flambeau des vrais rosecroix ou des sages
1798French
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La chimie au moyen âge. 2, L' alchimie syriaque
Marcellin Berthelot, Zosime de Panopolis
1893French
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Five treatises of the philosophers stone. Two of Alphonso King of Portugall, as it was written with his own hand, and taken out of his closset
1652
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
Charles Mackay
Date unknown
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
Charles Mackay
Date unknown
- Read free
[Pharmaceutical recipe book]
1675Dutch
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
Charles Mackay
Date unknown
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Rasaśāstra, circa 1650-1799
1650Sanskrit
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[Alchemical treatise]
1737German
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Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān. Īḍāḥ al-rumūz fī al-burhān. كتاب الكشف والبيان. ايضاح الرموز في البرهان
1600Arabic
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Viridarium regale
1676Greek
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[Alchemical compilation]
1750French
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[Italian alchemical miscellany]
1550Italian