Magic & Alchemy Books

New and Published Books

1. Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions. Some texts examine alchemy itself while some offer insight into the motives for alchemical research and others...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. John Dee's Natural Philosophy

   Between Science and Religion

   By Nicholas Clulee

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   This is the definitive study of John Dee and his intellectual career. Originally published in 1988, this interpretation is far more detailed than any that came before and is an authoritative account for anyone interested in the history, literature and scientific developments of the Renaissance, or...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge

   Giordano Bruno in England

   By Hilary Gatti

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama. This book explores Bruno's...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Secret Tradition in Alchemy

   Its Development and Records

   By Arthur Edward Waite

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism. It outlines some of the ‘secret’ inner meanings to alchemy -...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Giordano Bruno

   His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom

   By William Boulting

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century. This book follows Bruno’s life and the development of his thought in the order in which he declared it. Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. Alchemy in Europe

   A Guide to Research

   By Claudia Kren

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   This comprehensive annotated bibliography, first published in 1990, guides the user helpfully through where to find information on various elements on alchemy when researching. Divided into categories to aid finding the right area of interest, this book forms a unique reference tool....

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700

   From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts

   Edited by Robert M. Schuler

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2)

   22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583

   By Christopher Whitby

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   This was originally a two volume set which is now bound as one. Here is presented an investigation of the nature of the earliest extant records of the supposed communication with angels and spirits of John Dee (1527-1608) with the assistance of his two mediums or 'scryers', Barnabas Saul and Edward...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Magic in the Roman World

   Pagans, Jews and Christians

   By Naomi Janowitz

   Series: Religion in the First Christian Centuries

   Using in-depth examples of 'magical' practice such as exorcisms, love rites, alchemy and the transformation of humans into divine beings, this lively volume demonstrates that the word 'magic' was used widely in late antique texts as part of polemics against enemies and sometimes merely as a term...

   Published June 20th 2001 by Routledge