Stephanus of Alexandria (Greek: Στέφανος Αλεξανδρεύς; fl. c. 580 – c. 640) was a Byzantine philosopher and teacher who, besides philosophy in the Neo-Platonic...

century author of an important geographical dictionary Stephanus of Alexandria, 7th-century Byzantine philosopher, astronomer and teacher Stephanus Ackermann...

Stephanus of Athens (Greek: Στέφανος ό Άθηναίος; lived c. 540–680), also called Stephanus the Philosopher, was a Byzantine Greek physician and writer...

In alchemy, the Magnum Opus or Great Work is a term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone. It has been used...

the existence of works attributed to Stephanus of Alexandria in the Arabic tradition. Kraus 1942–1943, vol. II, pp. 40–41. Manuscripts of extant works...

Stephen of Alexandria wrote a work called De Chrysopoeia. Chrysopoeia is also the title of a 1515 poem by Giovanni Augurello. Images from Chrysopeoia of Cleopatra...

still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distillation of liquids. The complete distilling apparatus consists of three parts: the...

principle of fusibility and volatility: ☿ () Salt or body, the principle of non-combustibility and non-volatility: 🜔 () Western alchemy makes use of the four...

Secretorum (Latin for "secret of secrets"), also known as the Sirr al-Asrar (Arabic: كتاب سر الأسرار, lit. 'The Secret Book of Secrets'), is a treatise which...

overview of and topical guide to alchemy: Alchemy – A philosophical tradition recognized as protoscience, that includes the application of Hermetic principles...

medical movement based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus. It developed in the second half of the 16th century, during the decades following Paracelsus'...

Hermes Trismegistus, the text of the Emerald Tablet first appears in a number of early medieval Arabic sources, the oldest of which dates to the late eighth...

studies produced a number of substances, which were later classified as particular chemical compounds or mixtures of compounds. Many of these terms were in...

neoplatonist Stephanus of Alexandria brought this Alexandrian tradition to Constantinople, where it would remain influential, albeit as a form of secular education...

Moses of Alexandria, often known simply as Moses or Moses the Alchemist, was an early alchemist who wrote Greek alchemical texts around the first or second...

The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver; it was also known as "the...

of Alexandria Theon of Smyrna Theudius Thrasyllus of Mendes Thymaridas Xenocrates Zeno of Elea Zenodorus Stephanus of Alexandria Maximus Planudes Isaac...

alchemical text, The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra (Κλεοπάτρας χρυσοποιία), probably originally dating to the 3rd century Alexandria, but first known in a 10th-century...

other. The start of Western alchemy may generally be traced to ancient and Hellenistic Egypt, where the city of Alexandria was a center of alchemical knowledge...

between the first and third centuries A.D. in Alexandria. French, Taylor and Lippmann list her as one of the first alchemical writers, dating her works...

the Secreta alchymiae ('The Secret of Alchemy') attributed to Khalid ibn Yazid (c. 668–704 or 709), it is one of "the four principal operations", along...

philosopher, and medical doctor. A pioneer of chemistry, he developed ways of purification and creation of various acids, metals and other chemical compounds...

Splendor Solis (English: "The Splendour of the Sun") is a version of the illuminated alchemical text attributed to Salomon Trismosin. This version dates...

He was one of the many searchers for the philosopher's stone. In the process, he accidentally discovered phosphorus. Like other alchemists of the time,...

appears to have been active in Alexandria in the 3rd century or 4th century A.D. She is associated with the school of alchemy typified by Mary the Jewess...

he went with his brother Euoptius to Alexandria, where he became an enthusiastic Neoplatonist and disciple of Hypatia. Between 395 and 399, he spent...

Anglicised version of the name Basilius Valentinus, ostensibly a 15th-century alchemist, possibly Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt...

The Aurora consurgens is an alchemical treatise of the 15th century famous for the rich illuminations that accompany it in some manuscripts.: §38–44  While...

years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered...

of the Nabataean Agriculture (Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya), an influential Arabic work on agriculture, astrology, and magic. Already by the end of the...