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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Cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia; exinde, quid, lapis sophorum antiquissimus, rei sit, qui triplex, & tamen simplex lapis existit
1654German
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Musæum hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissimè erudiens, quo pacto summa illa veraque lapidis philosophici medicina, qua res omnes qualemcunque defectum patientes, instaurantur, inveniri & haberi queat. Continens tractatus chimicos XXI. præstantissimos, quorem nomina & seriem vaersa pagella indicabit. In gratiam filiorum doctrinæ, quibus germanicum idoma ignotum est, latina lingua ornatum.
1678Latin
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The Alchemist
Ben Jonson
Date unknown
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De arte cabalistica, seu De magisterio magno philosophorum ... [etc.]
1600Latin
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[Alchemical miscellany]
1700German
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Omnia secrettus & arttes de verra alhimie, cum lavorem de tinttura alba & rubra
1700German
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Beinecke MS 632, Figurae instrumentales Testamenti
1400Latin
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[La chimie, couleurs, parfumerie]
1500French
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[Alchemical miscellany]
1400Latin
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La Metallique transformation
1618French
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[Alchemical compilation]
1750German
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[Alchemical treatise]
1750Italian
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Kunstbüchlin, gerechten gründtlichen Gebrauchs aller kunstbaren Werckleut
1535German
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Ars magna
O. V. de Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz
Date unknownFrench
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Aurea catena Homeri, oder, Eine Beschreibung von dem Ursprung der Natur und natürlichen Dingen
Anton Joseph Kirchweger
1720Latin
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Aureum seculum patefactum, oder, Die eröffnete güldene Zeit
Alitophilus Chrysander, Johann Zieger, Yudin Collection
1706German
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Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān. Īḍāḥ al-rumūz fī al-burhān
1600Arabic
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Hiṅgulanāmalakṣaṇa, 1763
1763Sanskrit
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Elemens de chymie theorique
Pierre Joseph Macquer
1749French
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Witchcraft, magic & alchemy
Grillot de Givry, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, J. Courtenay Locke
1931

Il pendolo di Foucault
Umberto Eco
1980
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Threnodia medica seu planctus medicinae lugentis
1619Latin
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[Alchemical miscellany]
1675Italian
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Io. Francisci Pici Mirandvlae et concordiae domini, De avro libri tres. Opvs sane avrevm in qvo de auro tum aestimando, tum conficiendo, tum utendo ingeniose et docte disseritur
1587Latin