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Depiction of Mary the Jewess, considered the first non-fictitious Western alchemist. From Michael Maier's Symbola Aurea MensaeDuodecim Nationum (1617) 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 ...
Mary or Maria the Jewess (Latin: Maria Hebraea), also known as Mary the Prophetess (Latin: Maria Prophetissa) or Maria the Copt (Arabic: مارية القبطية, romanized: Māriyya al-Qibṭiyya), [1] was an early alchemist known from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis (fl. c. 300) and other authors in the Greek alchemical tradition. [2]
Cleopatra the Alchemist (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα; fl. c. 3rd century AD) was a Greek alchemist, writer, and philosopher. She experimented with practical alchemy but is also credited as one of the four female alchemists who could produce the philosopher's stone .
Published during the era of modernization of Italy, Cortese's work was popular and she was considered an itinerant female alchemist that supported women and their ability to read. [7] The knowledge she had gathered through travel to several countries like Moravia, Poland, and Hungary enabled her to create her various forms of work which ...
c. 150 BCE: Aglaonice became the first female astronomer to be recorded in Ancient Greece. [3] [4] 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 ...
Fang (Chinese: 方), was a Chinese scientist and alchemist who lived during the first century B.C during the Han dynasty. [1] She was the earliest recorded woman alchemist in China. She is only known under her family name Fang.
Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography (3. print. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-15031-X. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge.
Agathodaemon – Egyptian alchemist; Apsethus the Libyan – Ancient Libyan occultist [1] 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]