Another scientist of unknown birthday in #linocut portrait of the earliest recorded #alchemist: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). The ancient alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE), cites her research & innovations. She must have predated him, in the early centuries CE & several scholars suspect she lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos relates that she wrote a treatise 🧵1/n
