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Cleopatra the Alchemist

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Cleopatra the Alchemist (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα; fl. c. 3rd century AD) was born and raised in Alexandria Egypt. She was an Egyptian alchemist, writer, and philosopher. She experimented with practical alchemy but is also credited as one of the four female alchemists who could produce the philosopher's stone. Some writers consider her to be the inventor of the alembic, a distillation apparatus. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Cleopatra the Alchemist is the 1,092nd most popular philosopher (down from 1,056th in 2024). (down from 3,394th in 2019)

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Among philosophers, Cleopatra the Alchemist ranks 1,092 out of 1,267Before her are Max Dessoir, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Karl Ludwig von Haller, Julián Marías, Clémence Royer, and Theodor Benfey. After her are John Scott Haldane, Eugenio Garin, Alexander Men, Jean Cavaillès, Ivan Kireyevsky, and Abdel Rahman Badawi.

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