author
H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove
1887–1943
A chemist with a strong curiosity about mysticism, alchemy, and the history of unusual ideas, he wrote books that connect early occult traditions with modern scientific thinking. His work still appeals to listeners who enjoy the borderlands between science, belief, and cultural history.
2 Audiobooks
Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and to Recent Discoveries in Physical Science on the Other Hand; Together with Some Particulars Regarding the Lives and Teachings of the Most Noted Alchemists
by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove
About the author
Born in 1887, Herbert Stanley Redgrove was a British chemist and writer whose books often explored the meeting point of science, philosophy, and the occult. Sources connected with his work describe him as a chemist, and library records and public-domain editions show that he published across both technical and more speculative subjects.
Redgrove is especially remembered for Alchemy: Ancient and Modern and Bygone Beliefs, along with titles such as The Magic of Experience, Purpose and Transcendentalism, and a study of Roger Bacon. He is also described in multiple sources as someone who helped form the Alchemical Society in London, which fits the unusual mix of scholarly and esoteric interests seen in his writing.
His books are still widely circulated in digital libraries, where they attract readers interested in forgotten belief systems, intellectual history, and the ways older mystical traditions were reinterpreted in the early twentieth century. He died in 1943.