Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Person) AKA Geber
Jabir Ibn Hayyan
721 AD - 815 AD
AKA Geber
Medieval alchemist and polymath
Given the enormous number of alchemical books that have been attributed to him (more than 300) and the fact that the word jabir can mean “the one who rectifies things,” some scholars have suggested that the Corpus Jabirianum should be seen as the work of a group of anonymous alchemists.
Books traditionally attributed to Jabir:
- Mi’a wa-ithna ‘ashara kitaban (The One Hundred and Twelve Books), which explains how to produce the elixir from vegetables and animals and was supposedly based on Ja‘far Al-Sadiq’s teachings
- Kitab al-sab’in (The Book of the Seventy), a rich source for studying the operations and the equipment of medieval Arabic alchemy
- Kutub al-tashih (The Books on Rectification), a survey of the progress of earlier alchemists
- Kitab al-mizan (The Book of the Balance), in which Jabir clearly outlines the double aim of his alchemical practice as both the transmutation of bodies in the laboratory and the transformation of his own soul
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Gerber Codici Ashburnhamiani 1166, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
Geber Trading Card Liebig's Extract of Meat Company made Christmas Trading Cards of famous chemists - this one in 1929
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