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Zosimos of Panopolis (Greek: Ζώσιμος ὁ Πανοπολίτης; also known by the Latin name Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was an alchemist and Gnostic mystic. He was born in Panopolis (present day Akhmim , in the south of Roman Egypt ), and likely flourished ca. 300. [ 2 ]
Paphnutia the Virgin (fl. 300 C.E.) was an Egyptian alchemist living around the time of 300 C.E. who was referred to in the letters between the alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis and his sister Theosebeia (also assumed to be an alchemist). Within these letters Zosimos criticizes Theosebeia for talking and exchanging ideas with Paphnutia ...
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An 1888 reproduction of a Venetian list of medieval Greek alchemical symbols from about the year 1100 but circulating since about 300 and attributed to Zosimos of Panopolis. The list starts with 🜚 for gold and has early conventions that would later change: here ☿ is tin and ♃ electrum; ☾ is silver but ☽ is mercury.
Pseudo-Democritus – anonymous author of the oldest extant works of Greco-Egyptian alchemy. Zosimos of Panopolis – influential Greco-Egyptian alchemist. Khālid ibn Yazīd – credited with introducing alchemy to the Islamic world. Pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana – earliest known source of the sulfur-mercury theory of metals and the Emerald Tablet.
Ali bin Mahammad Aydamir or ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Jildakī (Egyptian Arabic: عز الدين الجلدكي; Coptic: Ⲉⲍ ⲉⲗⲇⲓⲛ ⲉⲗϫⲗⲇⲕⲓ), also written al-Jaldakī (d. 1342 CE / 743 AH) was an Egyptian [1] alchemist from the 14th century Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. A scientist and author who specialized in chemistry and lived ...
Zosimos of Panopolis, also known as Zosimus Alchemista, 3rd-century alchemist; Zosimus the Hermit, 3rd-century Christian ascetic; Zosimus, bishop of Naples, c. 356 – c. 362; Zosimas of Palestine (c. 460 – c. 560), Eastern Orthodox saint; Zosimus (historian) (c. 490–510) 5th-century Byzantine historian
Chymes (Greek: Χύμης) was a Greco-Roman alchemist who lived before the third century. He is known only through fragments of text in the works of Zosimos of Panopolis and Olympiodorus of Thebes. [1] Some theorists state that Chymes is the eponymous founder of alchemy. [2] Zosimus associates him with Mary the Jewess. He may likely date from ...