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Zosimos of Panopolis (Greek: Ζώσιμος ὁ Πανοπολίτης; also known by the Latin name Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was an alchemist and Gnostic mystic. He was born in Panopolis (present day Akhmim , in the south of Roman Egypt ), and likely flourished ca. 300. [ 2 ]
Paphnutia the Virgin (fl. 300 C.E.) was an Egyptian alchemist living around the time of 300 C.E. who was referred to in the letters between the alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis and his sister Theosebeia (also assumed to be an alchemist). Within these letters Zosimos criticizes Theosebeia for talking and exchanging ideas with Paphnutia ...
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An 1888 reproduction of a Venetian list of medieval Greek alchemical symbols from about the year 1100 but circulating since about 300 and attributed to Zosimos of Panopolis. The list starts with 🜚 for gold and has early conventions that would later change: here ☿ is tin and ♃ electrum; ☾ is silver but ☽ is mercury.
Zosimos of Panopolis, also known as Zosimus Alchemista, 3rd-century alchemist; Zosimus the Hermit, 3rd-century Christian ascetic; Zosimus, bishop of Naples, c. 356 – c. 362; Zosimas of Palestine (c. 460 – c. 560), Eastern Orthodox saint; Zosimus (historian) (c. 490–510) 5th-century Byzantine historian
Pseudo-Democritus – anonymous author of the oldest extant works of Greco-Egyptian alchemy. Zosimos of Panopolis – influential Greco-Egyptian alchemist. Khālid ibn Yazīd – credited with introducing alchemy to the Islamic world. Pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana – earliest known source of the sulfur-mercury theory of metals and the Emerald Tablet.
Alembic drawings appear in works of Cleopatra the Alchemist (3rd century C.E.), Zosimos of Panopolis (c. 300 C.E.), and Synesius (c. 373 – c. 414 C.E.). There were alembics with two (dibikos) and three (tribikos) receivers. [5] According to Zosimos of Panopolis, the alembic was invented by Mary the Jewess. [6]
If he was a non-Arab Muslim client of the Azd, he is most likely to have been Persian, given his ties with eastern Iran (his nisba al-Ṭūsī also points to Tus, a city in Khurasan). [22] According to Ibn al-Nadīm , Jabir hailed from Khurasan (eastern Iran ), but spent most of his life in Kufa (Iraq), [ 23 ] both regions where the Azd tribe ...