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Maria

ancient alchemist
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  • Thomas Wijck: Alchemist
    alchemy
    / Hellenistic alchemy

    …credits these innovations mainly to Maria (sometimes called ā€œthe Jewessā€), who invented the apparatus, and to Agathodaimon, probably a pseudonym. Neither is represented (beyond Zosimos’ references) in the Venice–Paris manuscript, but a tract attributed to Agathodaimon, published in 1953, shows him to be preoccupied with the colour sequence and complicating…

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    …credits these innovations mainly to Maria (sometimes called ā€œthe Jewessā€), who invented the apparatus, and to Agathodaimon, probably a pseudonym. Neither is represented (beyond Zosimos’ references) in the Venice–Paris manuscript, but a tract attributed to Agathodaimon, published in 1953, shows him to be preoccupied with the colour sequence and complicating…

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