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Something wrong?Zosimos of Panopolis was an alchemist and Gnostic mystic. He was born in Panopolis, and likely flourished ca. 300 AD. He wrote the oldest known books on alchemy, which he called "Cheirokmeta," using the Greek word for "things made by hand."
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Bust depicting Zosimos, 4th century![Distillation equipment of Zosimos, from the 15th century Byzantine Greek manuscript Codex Parisinus graecus 2327.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Zosimos_distillation_equipment.jpg/500px-Zosimos_distillation_equipment.jpg)
Distillation equipment of Zosimos, from the 15th century Byzantine Greek manuscript Codex Parisinus graecus 2327.[1]
An 1888 reproduction of a Venetian manuscript, from about the year 1100, listing medieval Greek alchemical symbols attributed to Zosimos. Of the planetary metals, ☿ is tin and ♃ electrum; ☾ is silver but ☽ is mercury. See the description of the file on Commons for translation.About this person
Zosimos of Panopolis was an alchemist and Gnostic mystic. He was born in Panopolis, and likely flourished ca. 300 AD. He wrote the oldest known books on alchemy, which he called "Cheirokmeta," using the Greek word for "things made by hand." Pieces of this work survive in the original Greek language and in translations into Syriac or Arabic. He is one of about 40 authors represented in a compendium of alchemical writings that was probably put together in Constantinople in the 7th or 8th century AD, copies of which exist in manuscripts in Venice and Paris. His fellow Egyptian alchemist Stephen of Alexandria is another.
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