Jeff C. Kunins

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Credit for the still goes instead to ancient Egypt, to an alchemist named Maria Hebraea, more commonly called Maria the Jewess. She was a scientist from the scholarly city of Alexandria sometime between the first and third centuries. And it’s . . . possible. Even though the history is sketchy, Alexandria was the kind of town where a Jewish woman researcher could have invented one of the most important pieces of lab equipment in history.
Proof: The Science of Booze
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