SECRET (overviews & introductions)

 Print:

• Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation By Sissela Bok
• Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries: Uncovering Mysterious Sites, Symbols, and Societies by Stephen Klimczuk, Gerald Warner

Online

• The Science Behind Secrets – Association for Psychological Science
• Keeping Secrets – Psychology Today
• The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies – George Simmel, 1906

 How to Keep a Secret: A Time Traveler’s Guide To Codes & Ciphers

 Print:

• The Code Book by Simon Singh
• The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn
• Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier

 Online:

• The Crypto Museum
• A fun little Interactive cipher disk
• They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside – Wired.com

 Sir Isaac Newton & the Hunting of the Greene Lyon

 Print:

• Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer by Michael White
• The Foundations Of Newton’s Alchemy: Or, “The Hunting Of The Greene Lyon,” by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
• The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
• Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry by Lawrence M. Principe, et al.
• Isaac Newton and the Transmutation of Alchemy: An Alternative View of the Scientific Revolution by Philip Ashley Fanning

 Online:

• The Chymistry of Isaac Newton – Indiana University
• Mad Scientist #9: Sir Isaac Newton – Mad Scientist Blog
• Moonlighting as a Conjurer of Chemicals – New York Times, October 2010
• Newton the Alchemist – NOVA
• Newton’s Dark Secrets – PBS
• Incredible videos recreate Isaac Newton’s experiments with alchemy – io9
• Newton’s Alchemy and His Theory of Matter – BJT Dobbs, Isis, 1982 on JSTOR
• The Newton You Never Knew [publication of all his papers]
• Books by Sir Isaac Newton – Project Gutenberg
• ‘Sir Isaac Newton’ – Westminster Abbey [Pope’s proposed epitaph, i.a.]
• John Maynard Keynes: Newton, the Man
• The Green Lion Eating the Sun – Physical Alchemy or Something Else?
• Hunting of the Greene Lyon [poem]
• Alchemical Symbols
• Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudoscience We All Thought It Was – Smithsonian.com
• Chemistry World: The Secrets of Alchemy [Review of the Book by Lawrence Principe, q.v.]
• Chemical Heritage Magazine, The Secrets of Alchemy [Synopsis by the Author]
• Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, History: Davis [obituary: historian of the “whole person” of Sir Isaac Newton]

 Howard Hughes, Clementine & the Plot to Steal Soviet Secrets

 Print:

• Project Azoian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 by Norman Polmar and Michael Whiter
• The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea by John Piña Craven

 Online:

• An easy burglary led to the disclosure of Hughes-C.I.A. plan to salvage Soviet sub by James Phelan, NY Times 27 March 1975
• Project Azorian (from the CIA’s website)

Joy Buzzers & Rideable Goats: Secrets of Initiation

Print:

• Secret Societies: From the Ancient and Arcane to the Modern and Clandestine by David Barrett

Online:

• Secret Societies: a very short history
• Secret Societies. [The Crimson]
• The 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Fraternal Supply Catalog No. 439
• DeMoulin Museum
• 25 biggest secret societies to ever exist
• The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions: Vintage Arsenal of Masonic Pranksters

The Secret of the Locked Door Heist at Mont Sainte Odile

Print:

• Article showing “secret passage”: “Observations architecturales sur la partie romane du Convent du Mont Sainte-Odile: une piece aveugle inedite” – Printed in les Cahiers d’art, d’archéologie et d’histoire, 1999, by Jean-Marie le Minor and Antony Bertrand (in French)
• Le Passe-muraille du mont Sainte-Odile by Alan Sutton, 2006 (in French)
• The Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenbourg (Landsberg, 1176-96): A Reconstruction  by Rosalie Green, Michael Evans et al

Online:

• Mystery at the monastery ends as CCTV reveals chamber of secrets’ daring thief
• 12 Illustrated plates from the Hortus Deliciarum
• Official website, Mont Sainte Odile
• Saint Odilia (Odile) – Catholic Encyclopedia

The Ship, the Psychic & the Ectoplasmic Seaman 

Print:

• Two Worlds of Helen Duncan by Gina Brealey
• The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II by Nina Shandler
• Midshipman’s War : A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War 1941-1943 by Frank Wade
• Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher Bell

Online:

• The HMS Barham Association
• The Barham Conspiracy – from World War II Magazine
• Video of HMS Barham Explosion
• About Secrets of World War II – Yesterday
• Wartime Witchcraft? – The Strange Tale of Helen Duncan and the Sinking of HMS Barham – Military History Now
• Ectoplasm Smells Like Seamen – Bruce M Hood

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For each salon, we  invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. These reading lists, along with selected excerpts, illustrations and summaries of each month’s talks are compiled in our monthly Odd Salon Journal. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Steen Comer, Frederic Lightning Leist, Miles Traer, and Douglas Worley. Thank you!