Alchemy medicine
Cauda pavonis meaning.
Alchemical symbol philosophers' stone
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Arabic translations of texts by Zosimos were discovered in 1995 in a copy of the book Keys of Mercy and Secrets of Wisdom by Ibn Al-Hassan Ibn Ali Al-Tughra'i', a Persian alchemist. Unfortunately, the translations were incomplete and seemingly non-verbatim[1] .
The famous index of Arabic books, Kitab al-Fihrist by Ibn Al-Nadim, mentions earlier translations of four books by Zosimos, however due to inconsistency in transliteration, these texts were attributed to names "Thosimos", "Dosimos" and "Rimos"; also it is possible that two of them are translations of the same book.
Alchemy
In about 300 A.D., Zosimos provided on of the first definitions of alchemy:
Alchemy (330) – the study of the composition of waters, movement, growth, embodying and disembodying, drawing the spirits from bodies and bonding the spirits within bodies.[2]
Visions of Zosimos
One of Zosimos' texts is about a sequence of dreams related to Alchemy, and presents th
