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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.
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 ...
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 ...
1561: Italian alchemist Isabella Cortese published her popular book The Secrets of Lady Isabella Cortese. 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]
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She was interested in physic and alchemy, and had an alchemical recipe book compiled for her. [5] She died at Brougham Castle, on 24 May 1616. [6] The tomb of the Countess is at St Lawrence's Church, Appleby along with that of her daughter, Lady Anne Clifford. Lady Anne Clifford built the Countess Pillar to commemorate her.
Title page of La Chymie ... des Dames, 1687 edition The Château de Grosbois, where Meurdrac lived for a period. Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610 – 1680) was a French chemist and alchemist known for writing La Chymie Charitable et Facile, en Faveur des Dames [Easy Chemistry for Women], a treatise on chemistry aimed at common women. [1]
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