“The Epistle of the Crown and the Creation of the Newborn Baby”
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Mary the Jewess
Mary or Maria the Jewess, also known as Mary the Prophetess or Maria the Copt, was an early alchemist known from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis and other authors in the Greek alchemical tradition. On the basis of Zosimos's comments, she lived between the first and third centuries CE in Alexandria. Marilyn French, F. Sherwood Taylor and Edmund Oscar von Lippmann list her as one of the first alch…
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science · First Western alchemist (1st century) · architect · alchemist · writer · philosopher · inventor · also Mary the Jewess, María la judía, María Profética, maria profetisa, María profetisa, Miriam la profetisa
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To create the extractor that bears his name, the Soxhlet extractor
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