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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]
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.
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 .
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 ...
Paphnutia the Virgin (c. 300), Egyptian alchemist [2]: 978 Paula of Rome (347–404 CE), Roman healer [2]: 990 Perictione (5th century BCE), Greek philosopher, mother of Plato; Panthea, Ancient Greek physician, wife and colleague of Glycon [3] Philinna of Thessaly, Ancient Greek physician [3] Peseshet, Egyptian physician (Fourth Dynasty)
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]
Isabella Cortese (fl. 1561), was an Italian alchemist and writer of the Renaissance.All that is known of her life and work is from her book on alchemy, The Secrets of Lady Isabella Cortese.