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During the 16th century, women were still continuing to get a foothold in the realm of science. While males still dominated most areas of expertise in the realms of medicine and other practices, the female body continued to be most knowledgeable by the women themselves. [ 2 ]
Two of the most well-known women alchemists of the sixteenth-century were Isabella Cortese and Anna Maria Zieglerin. [23] Cortese was the only female alchemist to have a book printed in the sixteenth-century, I secreti della signora Isabella Cortese ; however, Zieglerin pursued alchemic work in the court of Duke Julius of Braunschweig ...
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Pages in category "16th-century alchemists" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
1st century BCE: A woman known only as Fang became the earliest recorded Chinese female alchemist. She is credited with "the discovery of how to turn mercury into silver" – possibly the chemical process of boiling off mercury in order to extract pure silver residue from ores. [5] 1st century CE: Mary the Jewess was among the world's first ...
Indian alchemists and Chinese alchemists made contributions to Eastern varieties of the art. Alchemy is still practiced today by a few, and alchemist characters still appear in recent fictional works and video games. Many alchemists are known from the thousands of surviving alchemical manuscripts and books. Some of their names are listed below.
Some of the woodcut images have precedents in earlier (15th-century) German alchemical literature, especially in the Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit (ca. 1410) which has the direct precedents of woodcuts 10, 17 and 19, allegorical of the complete hieros gamos, nrs. 10 and 17 in the form of the "Hermetic androgyne" and nr. 19 in terms of ...
Margherita di Napoli (late 14th century), Napolitan oculist active in Frankfurt-am-Main [8] Mercuriade (14th century), Italian physician and surgeon [12] Gilette de Narbonne (fl. 1300), French physician [8] Isabella da Ocre, Napolitan surgeon [8] Francisca da Romana, Napolitan physician [8] Dame Péronelle (1292–1319), French herbalist
The work consists of a sequence of 22 elaborate images, set in ornamental borders and niches. The symbolic process shows the classical alchemical death and rebirth of the king, and incorporates a series of seven flasks , each associated with one of the then-known planets.