Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,793
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 65%
- 1,814 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,768
- Metadata match131
- Query match893
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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
- Alchemy538
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)227
- History174
- Alchemie140
- Early works to 1800139
- Alchimie125
- Occultism122
- Social Sciences110
- Philosophy105
- Art97
- Arts and Humanities86
- Hermetism86
- Chemistry84
- Literature68
- Magic62
- Medicine53
- Archeology50
- Text50
- Art history46
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies46
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices44
- Alquimia42
- Hermeticism41
- Alchemia39
Top languages
- German812 · 29%
- English626 · 22%
- Latin426 · 15%
- NOT345 · 12%
- French192 · 7%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus243 in this tradition252 books
- Trismegistus Hermes58 in this tradition62 books
- Basilius Valentinus27 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer25 books
- Michael Maier24 in this tradition28 books
- Raimundus Lullus21 in this tradition24 books
- Gerhard Dorn17 in this tradition19 books
- Pierre-Jean Fabre16 books
- Carl Gustav Jung14 in this tradition32 books
- George Starkey14 books
- Johann Rudolph Glauber13 in this tradition14 books
- Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān12 in this tradition13 books
2,793 books
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Raccolta di celebri arcani chimici da diversi famosi filosofi dati in luce et esperimentati
1500Italian
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[Alchemical compilation]
1797
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Medicine man's pocket notebook, circa 1700-1850
1700Sanskrit
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Raimvndi Lvlii Maiorici, philosophi acutissimi, mediciq[ue] celeberrimi, De secretis naturæ siue Quinta essentia libri duo. His accesserunt Alberti Magni, summi philosophi, De mineralibus & rebus metallicis libri quinque.
Albertus, Ramon Llull, Walther Hermann Ryff, Peter Schöffer
1542Latin
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[Medical and philosophical compilation]
1750
Alchemy tried in the fire
William R. Newman, Lawrence Principe, Lawrence M. Principe
2002
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Rasarājalakṣmī, circa 1700-1850
Rāmeśvara Bhaṭṭa
1700Sanskrit
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[Alchemical and medical compilation]
1750French
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La filosophia naturale di molti celebri et antichissimi
1721French
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Natural magick
Giambattista della Porta
1658
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Jo. Jacobi Mangeti...Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, seu rerum ad alchemiam pertinentium thesaurus instructissimus: quo non tantùm artis auriferæ, ac scriptorum in ea nobiliorum historia traditur; lapidis veritas argumentis & experimentis innumeris, immò & juris consultorum judiciis evincitur; termini obscuriores explicantur; cautiones contra impostores, & difficultates in tinctura universali conficienda occurrentes, declarantur: verùm etiam tractatus omnes virorum celebriorum, qui in magno sudarunt elixyre, quíque ab ipso Hermete, ut dicitur, Trismegisto, ad nostra usque tempora de chrysopoea scripserunt, cum præcipuis suis commentariis, concinno ordine dispositi exhibentur.
Jean-Jacques Manget
1702Italian
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[Excerpts from alchemical and philosophical works]
George Barrett
1680Latin
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Examen fvcorvm psevdo-chymicorvm detectorvm et in gratiam veritatis amantium succincte refutatorum,
Michael Maier
1617Latin
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[Pharmacopoeia]
1722French
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Abjuratione del Borri nell'anno 1661
Giuseppe Francesco Borri
1661Italian
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Secreta des Doctr. Krugs
Theodor Christoph Krug
1700German
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Der tritte Theil zur Aurea Catena
Baron d' Abacourt
1750German
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A Discovrse of Fire and Salt
Blaise de Vigenère, Edward Stephens
Date unknown
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A New Light of Alchymie
Michal Sedziwój, Paracelsus, John French
Date unknown
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Alchemy
Arthur Edward Waite
1100
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Be young again!
Murray Leinster, Lawrence Sterne Stevens
Date unknown
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Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
H. Stanley Redgrove
Date unknown
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Lives of alchemystical philosophers
Arthur Edward Waite, Francis Barrett
Date unknown
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Of Natural and Supernatural Things
Basilius Valentinus, Daniel Cable
Date unknown