#marythejewess — Public Fediverse posts
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I’m excited to join #printersolstice - the element themes are a great fit for science stories I want to tell. But I have no time to carve now, so until I can catch up, here’s a the earliest recorded #alchemist for “gold”: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). She likely lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE) relates that she wrote a treatise called 🧵1/n
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