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The most original and outstanding scientist of antiquity is in the tradition of alchemy. She was the one who initiated empirical alchemy, which had illustrious successors, such as Cleopatra, 3rd century, who wrote Chrysopoeia (Making Gold), but who above all brought the value of experimentation to the alchemical tradition, making it an experimental tradition.

With Cleopatra, however, this tradition came to an end. Alchemy arrived in the Middle Ages as mystical gibberish. Marie is the heir of perfumers such as Taputti Bellatekalim, from 1200 BC, and her empirical alchemical proposals (which led her to create instruments and use glass) have later heirs such as Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) or Caterina Vitale in the 16th century, pharmacist of the Sacred Infirmary of Malta, Marie Meurdrac (1610-1680), almost pointing to the birth of chemistry with the Lavoisier couple.

Some of the most famous Roman doctors were also their contemporaries, such as Metrodora (200-400), of whom we have a treatise on women's diseases and care, Antiochis of Tlos (1st century BC), a specialist in spleen and arthritic diseases and a friend of Galen (129-216), Elephantis (1st century BC), Lais or Aspasia of Miletus (c. 470 BC - c. 400 BC) and Cleopatra, the last two being the most outstanding. Before them we find Olympias of Thebes, a specialist in preventing miscarriages and inducing labour with mallow and goose fat. These doctors had a professional status that should be emphasised. The Empress Julia Domna (c. 170-217) was also a contemporary, noted for her knowledge of science and philosophy, ruling alongside her husband and maintaining a salon attended by Galen (129-c. 216) and Diogenes Laertius (3rd century), among others. She also had an illustrious and battle-hardened contemporary in Zenobia of Palmyra (c. 240-c. 274), who bravely faced the Roman legions. Nevertheless, the bain-marie, the black marie, glass in the laboratory, instruments such as the tribikos and above all the kerotakis, as well as her zeal for empirical verification (which took centuries to recover), make her one of the great scientists of antiquity.

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To carry out an experiment using the water bath of Mary of Alexandria. To find the melting temperature of a pure substance. 

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