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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]
Published during the era of modernization of Italy, Cortese's work was popular and she was considered an itinerant female alchemist that supported women and their ability to read. [7] The knowledge she had gathered through travel to several countries like Moravia, Poland, and Hungary enabled her to create her various forms of work which ...
She was the first woman to become a full professor in any department at a Canadian university. [157] 1913: Regina Fleszarowa became the first Polish woman to receive a PhD in natural sciences. [158] 1913: Izabela Textorisová, the first Slovakian female botanist, published "Flora Data from the County of Turiec" in the journal Botanikai ...
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 .
Several women appear in the earliest history of alchemy. Michael Maier names four women who were able to make the philosophers' stone: Mary the Jewess, Cleopatra the Alchemist, Medera, and Taphnutia. [117] Zosimos' sister Theosebia (later known as Euthica the Arab) and Isis the Prophetess also played roles in early alchemical texts.
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.
Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (1820–1921), American physician, first female physician in the state of Louisiana; Rebecca Cole (1846–1922) American physician, by 1867 she was the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States