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Ostanes, the Mede, was one of the celebrated early alchemists. Several writers have recorded for us the existence of a book called The Book of the Divine Prescriptions, which seems to have been the most famous writing of these Persian sages.

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Pliny tells us that Demokritos was instructed in magic by Ostanes the Mede.

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