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
For #SciArtSeptember prompt “alchemical” my new #linocut portrait of the earliest recorded #alchemist: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). Alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE), cites her research & innovations & several scholars suspect she lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos relates that she wrote a treatise called "On Furnaces and Apparatuses" & she invented, or at least described … 🧵1/n
Do you like Alchemist? Great, he's my favorite producer too so I curated a #playlist with a lot of my favorite beats of his. A few things on how I set it :
First I was going to limit myself at 50 beats but that shit is damn near impossible and heartbreaking. So I ended up with 80+.
They sorted by chronological order of release so you can appreciate the evolution of his sounds.
If the instrumental version exists on #spotify, it ends on the playlist instead of the whole song. It really helps in the end because I tried to make a beat selection, not a best song produced by Alchemist. Maybe I forgot some tho, have to double check on some.
If he produced multiple beats on a project, I could only pick one. Otherwise the playlist would run for like 12 hours. That was the heartbreaking part.
Not everything is on streaming unfortunately. Thoughts and prayers for projects like Rare Chandelier, both Fashawn EP, his own Chemical Warfare album and some others.
Last but not least, this MY favorite ALC beats so if yours doesn't end up here, do your own, let's compare it and discuss it! Is Keep it Thoro a timeless beat? Yes. Do I prefer Three ? Also yes.
Anyway, just enjoy the genius of the living legend