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16 BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES LIBRARIAN

‘+’: reviewed in Magazines for Libraries”

‘!’: held by a critical number (an arbitrary weighted average) of libraries in
the online catalogs I investigated (Illinet, OhioLink and OCLC mem-
bers, plus Harvard University)

‘*’: reviewed in the ARBA seriesi2
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‘#’: recommended by Steint3

This coding system will give some indication of the relative general
significance and/or popularity of the titles listed, but it must be empha-
sized that this kind of statistical approach is less effective in evaluating
titles on the more specialized subjects, or in judging the most recently
published works.

ALCHEMY

The origins of alchemy are ancient, and although the study perhaps
reached its zenith in medieval times, there continues to be an active inter-
est in the subject on physical, philosophical and mystical grounds. Not
surprisingly, however, a good deal of the existing reference literature deals
with ancient sources.

Su bjectsKeywords

alchemy (QD13; QD23.3-26.5; 25524.A35; 2661 1.A37); chemisty-early
works to 1800 (QD14); medicine magic mystic and spagiric; medicine,
medieval (R128- 128.3; R14 1 - 144); Paracelsus (B785.P2; BF 1 598.P2)
philosophers’ stone

Serials
!.4mbix [history of alchemy] (1937-)

The Hermetic Journal (1 9%)

Reference Works

Die Alchemie in Alterer und Neuerer Zeit [alchemy-bibliog.] (H. Kopp;
various reprints of 1886 ed.) 2 vols.