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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 ...
Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610–1680), French chemist and alchemist; Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), Italian mathematician and the first female PhD; Marguerite de la Sablière (c. 1640–1693), French natural philosopher; Jane Sharp (fl. 1671), British obstetrician; Justine Siegemund (1636–1705), German obstetrician
Occultism is one form of mysticism. [a] This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices, including alchemists, astrologers, some Kabbalists, [b] magicians, psychics, sorcerers, and practitioners some forms of divination, especially Tarot.
The work included recipes for medicines, distilled oils and cosmetics, and was the only book published by a female alchemist in the 16th century. [ 19 ] 1572: Italian botanist Loredana Marcello died from the plague – but not before developing several effective palliative formulas for plague sufferers, which were used by many physicians.
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 .
This is a list of chemists. It should ... (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (actual name Hermann ... Manhattan Project chemist and the first female ...
Fictional alchemists, practitioners of alchemy.Alchemy was an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.