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1166: 80:(also assumed to be an alchemist). Within these letters Zosimos criticizes Theosebeia for talking and exchanging ideas with Paphnutia, considering her someone that was uneducated and who incorrectly practiced alchemy. Little else is known about this ancient alchemist, other than it is thought that Paphnutia could have been connected to a competing school of alchemy than Zosimos, or that she could also have been a priestess. 328: 938: 715: 750: 72:
300 C.E.) was an Egyptian alchemist living around the time of 300 C.E. who was referred to in the letters between the alchemist
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Referred to in the letters between the alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis and his sister Theosebeia
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Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Zosimos of Panopolis
Theosebeia
Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century
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0941901270
Ogilvie, Marilyn
Harvey, Joy
The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science
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9780415920384
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Alchemy (general)
Alchemists
Agathodaemon (legendary)
Chymes
pseudo-Cleopatra
pseudo-Democritus
Hermes Trismegistus (legendary)
Mary the Jewess
pseudo-Moses
Ostanes (legendary)
Paphnutia the Virgin
Zosimos of Panopolis
Ancient Chinese
Fang (alchemist)
Ge Hong

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