biography
pronunciation:
[jayber]
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| male
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| lived:
| (14th-c)
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| biography:
| Spanish alchemist, who took the name of Geber (Latin for Jabir) to trade on the reputation of Jabir ibn Hayyan, a celebrated Arabic alchemist. Geber's principal writings are the clearest exposition of alchemical theory and of laboratory procedures produced before the 16th-c, and were widely read. They include Liber fornacum (1678, Book of Furnaces). |
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