When1: 100
When2: 200
Who: Mary the Jewess or Maria the Jewess
What: alchemist
Where: Alexandria, Egypt
works\ hot ash box [100 to 200: for steady heat]; dung box [100 to 200: for prolonged heat]; double boiler or bain-marie [100 to 200]; kerotakis [100 to 200: still]; tribikos [100 to 200: top of still]
Detail: Perhaps, she wrote, "One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth."
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