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
- Read free
De alchymia libri tres
Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān
1529NOT
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De arte Chymiae Scripta
Bacon Roger
1603NOT
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De christiana ac tuta medendi ratione
Baptista Codronchius
1591NOT
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De curandis luxatis libellus
v460-v370 Hippocrates
1579NOT
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De goude leeuw of den asijn der wysen
Goossen van Vreeswyk
1675NOT
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De humoribus et superfluitatibus disputatio physiologica
Cyriacus Lutz, Michael Rotmund
1588NOT
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De investigatione perfectionis metallorum liber I
Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān
1541Latin
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De l'admirable pouvoir et puissance de l'art et de nature ou est traicté de la pierre philosophale
Bacon Roger
1629NOT
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De lapide philosophico tractatus gemini
Joachim Tancke
1604NOT
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De medicina philosophica
Cyriacus Lutz
1597NOT
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De morbis mulieribus
Albertino Bottoni
1585NOT
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De morbo Gallico
Paracelsus
1578German
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De pictura praestantissima ... arte
Leon Battista Alberti
1540NOT
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De praeparationibus Libri duo
Paracelsus
1569NOT
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De ratione et usu dierum criticorum opus recens natum [...]
Thomas Boderius
1555Latin
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De secretis adeptorum
Johann Seger von Weidenfeld
1684Latin
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De secretis antimonii. Das ist von der grossen Heymligkeit des Antimonii, zu Teutschem Spiesglas genant, die Artzney betreffend
Alexander von Suchten
1598NOT
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De secretis creationis
Paracelsus
1575NOT
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De secretis naturae
Raimundus Lullus
1567NOT
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De summis naturae mysteriis libri tres
Paracelsus
1570NOT
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De transfiguratione metallorum ... libellus
ca. Ende 7. Jh Morienus
1559NOT
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De variis medicorum sectis, nunc in republica vigentibus optima doctrina et medicina philos
Cyriacus Lutz
1583NOT
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Denen hochansehnlichen Gliedern der churbaierischen Akademie der Wissenschaften seinen gnädigen, hochzuehrenden und werthgeschätzten Herren wiedmet diese durch Erfahrung und vorsichtiges Nachsinnen gefundene Wahrheiten, welche die sammlende Lebenskraft aller Dinge, die innere Beschaffenheit der ersten Anfänge der Körper, und die natürliche Ordnung bey Erzeugung der Körper betreffen
Anton Rüdiger
1768German
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Denkmahl der Freundschaft und Dankbarkeit über der Asche seines Freundes und Lehrers Anton Ridigers ordentlichen Professors der Chymie
Andreas Nitsche
1783German