STEM Fatale Podcast

Episode 045 - Mary the Jewess | Alchemist

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Alternate Title: Double Double Boiler and Trouble

Emlyn tells Emma about the first Alchemist of the western world, Mary the Jewess, and Emma tells Emlyn about the first all-female space walk! 

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Main Story - Mary the Jewess

  1. “Mary the Jewess, First Known Alchemist” by Jone Johnson Lewis. https://www.thoughtco.com/mary-the-jewess-biography-3530346
  • “Mary the Jewess, An Inventor of Alchemy”, National Library of Israel. https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/library/reading_corner/pages/maria_the_jewess.aspx
  • “Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudo-science We All Thought It was” by Richard Conniff. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alchemy-may-not-been-pseudoscience-we-thought-it-was-180949430/
  • “Mary the Jewess” by John H. Lienhard, Engines of Our Ingenuity. https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi964.htm
  • “Mary the Jewess”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_the_Jewess

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    Women who Werk 

    • Zraick, Karen. “NASA Astronauts Complete the First All-Female Spacewalk.” New York Times. 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/science/space/nasa-female-spacewalk.html

     

    Music

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “Work” by Rihanna

    “Double Trouble” by John Williams (Harry Potter - Prisoner of Azkaban soundtrack)

     

    Cover Image

    Engraving depicting Maria Prophetissima from Michael Maier's book Symbola Aurea Mensae Duodecim Nationum (1617).

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