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All that is known of her life and work is from her book on alchemy, The Secrets of Lady Isabella Cortese. Cortese was also well-versed in several fields other than alchemy. She helped develop a variety of facial cosmetic products and made a variety of other contributions to science during the 16th century.
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 ...
An alchemist is a person versed in the art of alchemy. Western alchemy flourished in Greco-Roman Egypt, the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, and then in Europe from the 13th to the 18th centuries. Indian alchemists and Chinese alchemists made contributions to Eastern varieties of the art. Alchemy is still practiced today by a few, and ...
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Pages in category "16th-century alchemists" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
Atomus – Cypriot magician (1st century) Chu Fu – Chinese Han dynasty occultist (d. 130 BC) Chymes – Greco-Roman alchemist; Cleopatra the Alchemist – Egyptian alchemist and writer; Saint Cyprian the Magician — 4th-century sorcerer from Antioch [2] Elymas – Jewish magus depicted in the Acts of the Apostles [3]
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 ...
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 ...
Cleopatra the Alchemist (c. 3rd century CE), wrote the alchemical book, Chrysopoeia, or "gold-making" [4]: 99 [5] Damo (6th century BCE), Greek natural philosopher Diotima of Mantinea (4th century BCE), philosopher and scientist, ancient Greece