page_title: Mary the Jewess
hierarchical_section_title: Mary the Jewess
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary the jewess by Michael Maier
context_page_description: Mary or Maria the Jewess, also known as Mary the Prophetess, is an early alchemist who is known from the works of the Gnostic Christian writer Zosimos of Panopolis. On the basis of Zosimos's comments, she lived between the first and third centuries A.D. French, Taylor and Lippmann list her as one of the first alchemical writers, dating her works at no later than the first century.
  She is credited with the invention of several kinds of chemical apparatus and is considered to be the first true alchemist of the Western world.
context_section_description: Mary or Maria the Jewess, also known as Mary the Prophetess (Latin: Maria Prophetissima), is an early alchemist who is known from the works of the Gnostic Christian writer Zosimos of Panopolis. On the basis of Zosimos's comments, she lived between the first and third centuries A.D. French, Taylor and Lippmann list her as one of the first alchemical writers, dating her works at no later than the first century.
  She is credited with the invention of several kinds of chemical apparatus and is considered to be the first true alchemist of the Western world.
caption: Engraving depicting Maria Prophetissima from Michael Maier's book Symbola Aurea Mensae Duodecim Nationum (1617).
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