Agathodaemon of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων Ἀλεξανδρεὺς, Agathodaímōn Alexandreùs) was a Greek or Hellenized Egyptian cartographer, presumably...

Ptolemaic Alexandria. Vol. I. Oxford: Claredon Press. p. 210. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agathodaemon", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and...

Egyptian alchemist Agathodaemon of Alexandria, an Egyptian cartographer of uncertain date connected with Ptolemy's Geography Agathodaemon, a Martian canal...

inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria. Notable features of Ptolemy's map is...

Agathodaemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων, Agathodaímōn; c. 300) was an alchemist in late Roman Egypt, known only from fragments quoted in medieval alchemical...

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

leaves of ancient Egypt and supporting an architrave with a relief of a central winged sun-disk flanked by Horus falcons. A carved Agathodaemon in the...

Bolbitine (later the Rosetta) the Canopic (also called the Herakleotic, Agathodaemon) Alexandrian (Schedia canal) Colynthin (Canopic) Agnu (Rosetta) Parollos...

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Italy Copper statuette of Serapis Agathodaemon, in National Archaeological Museum, Athens Youtie, H. (1948). "The kline of Serapis". The Harvard Theological...

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...

to have spoken of the union of opposites: Join the male and the female, and you will find what is sought. Mary, along with Agathodaemon, Pseudo-Democritus...

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...

known as Agathodaemon in the old canal maps), has a length of 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) and a depth of up to 7 kilometres (4.3 mi). The length of Valles...

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...

Greek Μαριανός, Marianos), himself supposedly a pupil of the philosopher Stephanus of Alexandria (fl. early seventh century). Widely popular among later...

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

Compare with Aeschylus, Heliades (Daughters of Helios) fr. 70 Sommerstein [= fr. 70 Radt] [= Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, 5.14.114.4 = Eusebius, Praeparatio...

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...

unpleasant or fetid (offensive) smell. The Greek Christian writer Clement of Alexandria deliberately confounded ichor in its medical sense as a foul-smelling...

authors of Greek and Latin works from Hellenistic period onwards. Together with Pseudo-Zoroaster and Pseudo-Hystaspes, Ostanes belongs to the group of pseudepigraphical...

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...

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

representation of the Nile, the symbol of prolificacy, with Agathodaemon (Chnuphis), or with scarabs, the symbols of the revivifying energies of nature. Abraxas...

mainstream entertainment. Literary alchemy appears throughout the history of English literature from Shakespeare to modern Fantasy authors. Here, characters...

Cardinal Jean de La Rochetaillée Jean de Roquetaillade, also known as John of Rupescissa, (ca. 1310 – between 1366 and 1370) was a French Franciscan alchemist...

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...

separate recensions of the text which diverged as early as the 2nd or 4th century. A passage in some of the recensions credits an Agathodaemon with drafting...

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

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