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• Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
• Paracelsus, 1493-1541

• Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers (London: G. Redway, 1888), by Arthur Edward Waite
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Raymund Lully, Illuminated Doctor, Alchemist and Christian Mystic (London: W. Rider and Son, 1922), by Arthur Edward Waite (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus: His Personality and Influence as Physician, Chemist and Reformer (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1920), by John Maxson Stillman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text

• The Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes (1919), by Thomas Vaughan, ed. by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)

• St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831), by William Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Raymund Lully, Illuminated Doctor, Alchemist and Christian Mystic (London: W. Rider and Son, 1922), by Arthur Edward Waite (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disertaciones Historicas del Culto Inmemorial del B. Raymundo Lullio: Dr. Iluminado, y Martir, y de la Inmunidad de Censuras que Goza su Dotrina: Con un Apendiz de Su Vida (in Spanish; Mallorca: M. Capò, 1700), by Jaime Custurer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera Omnia: Quibus Tradidit Artis Raymundi Lullii Compendiosam Explicationem, et Eiusdem Applicationem ad I. Logica, II. Rhetorica, III. Physica, IV. Mathematica, V. Mechanica, VI. Medica, VII. Metaphysica, VIII. Theologica, IX. Ethica, X. Juridica, XI. Problematica (in Latin; Cologne: L. Zetzner, 1612), by Bernardus de Lavinheta, ed. by Johann Heinrich Alsted (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Paracelsus, Theophrastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541 (London: J. Murray, 1911), by Anna M. Stoddart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Prophecies of Paracelsus: Magic Figures and Prognostications Made by Theophrastus Paracelsus about Four Hundred Years Ago (London: William Rider and Son, 1915), by Paracelsus, ed. by J. K. (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus: His Personality and Influence as Physician, Chemist and Reformer (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1920), by John Maxson Stillman (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Discovery of the Elements (sixth edition, enlarged and revised; Easton, PA: Journal Of Chemical Education, c1956), by Mary Elvira Weeks, ed. by Henry Marshall Leicester, contrib. by F. B. Dains (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Discovery of the Elements (fifth edition, enlarged and revised; Easton, PA: Journal of Chemical Education, c1945), by Mary Elvira Weeks, contrib. by F. B. Dains (page images at HathiTrust)

• Priestley in America, 1794-1804 (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1920), by Edgar F. Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Alan J. Rocke (HTML at UC Press)

• Consolations in Travel: or, The Last Days of a Philosopher (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1889), by Humphry Davy, ed. by John Davy, contrib. by Henry Morley
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Labors and Legacies: The Chemists of Penn State, 1855-1947 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, c2006), by Kristen A. Yarmey (PDF at psu.edu; 253 MB)
• Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1995), by Germaine M. Reed (PDF at Georgia)

• Chemical Essays: Being a Continuation of My Reflections on Fixed Fire, with Observations and Strictures Upon Drs. Priestley's, Fordyce's, Pearson's, and Beddoes's Late Papers in the Philosophical Transactions; and an Answer to the Reviewers (London: Printed for T. Faulder, J. Murray, J. Evans, 1793), by Robert Harrington (page images at NIH)
• Priestley in America, 1794-1804 (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1920), by Edgar F. Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Girl in the Golden Atom, by Ray Cummings (Gutenberg text)

• Shadows on the Rock (1931), by Willa Cather (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Alan J. Rocke (HTML at UC Press)

• Consolations in Travel: or, The Last Days of a Philosopher (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1889), by Humphry Davy, ed. by John Davy, contrib. by Henry Morley
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. (9 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839-1840), by Humphry Davy, ed. by John Davy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Linus Pauling Research Notebooks, by Linus Pauling (page images at Oregon State)

• Fifty Years in Pharmacy (from Indiana Historical Society Publications, v3 #5; Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1903), by George White Sloan
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Women in the Chemical Workforce: A Workshop Report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (Washington: National Academy Press, 2000), by National Research Council Chemical Sciences Roundtable (multiple formats with commentary at NAP)

• Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1995), by Germaine M. Reed (PDF at Georgia)

• The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926), by Will Durant
  • 6th printing: page images at HathiTrust
  • 14th printing: multiple formats at archive.org

• Les Philosophes Belges (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Theosophic Correspondence Between Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (The "Unknown Philosopher") and Kirchberger, Baron de Liebistorf, by Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Nicolas Antoine Kirchberger, trans. by Edward Burton Penny (HTML at TUP)

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. by Edward N. Zalta (HTML at Stanford)

• A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum (Boston: J. P. Mendum, 1850), by Frances Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Praxis of Alain Badiou (2006), ed. by Paul Ashton, A. J. Bartlett, and Justin Clemens (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)

• Beyond the Snow: Being a History of Trim's Adventures in Nordlichtschein (Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1873), by P. Fishe Reed (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Platonism and Alchemy, by Alexander Wilder (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• Porphyrii De Philosophia ex Oraculis Haurienda: Librorum Reliquiae (main text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Springer, 1856), by Porphyry, ed. by Gustav Wolff
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  • page images at HathiTrust

• The First Philosophers of Greece: An Edition and Translation of the Remaining Fragments of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Together With a Translation of the More Important Accounts of Their Opinions Contained in the Early Epitomes of Their Works (in English with some Greek passages; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1898), by Arthur Fairbanks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Apollonius of Tyana (1901), by G. R. S. Mead
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Apollonius of Tyana: A Study of His Life and Times (London: Grant Richards, 1908), by F. W. Groves Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, by Philostratus the Athenian, trans. by F. C. Conybeare
  • HTML with commentary at livius.org
  • HTML with commentary at chrestos.com
• The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, the Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius (2 volumes, 1912), by Philostratus the Athenian, trans. by F. C. Conybeare, contrib. by Apollonius, of Tyana and Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation, by Alexander Whyte (Gutenberg text)
• Jacob Boehme: His Life and Teaching, or, Studies in Theosophy (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1885), by H. Martensen, trans. by Thomas Rhys Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Famous Mystics (Philadelphia: David McKay Co., ca. 1940), by Arthur Edward Waite and William P. Swainson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., 1891), by Jakob Böhme, ed. by Franz Hartmann (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Biographie Franz von Baader's (in German; Leipzig: H. Bethmann, 1857), by Franz von Baader, ed. by Franz Hoffmann
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  • page images at HathiTrust

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