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Geber
[ jee-ber ]
noun
- Jabir ibn Hayyan, 8th-century a.d., Arab alchemist.
Geber
/ ˈdʒiːbə /
noun
- Geber14th-centuryMSpanishSCIENCE: chemist Latinized form of Jabir, assumed in honour of Jabir ibn Hayyan by a 14th-century alchemist, probably Spanish: he described the preparation of nitric and sulphuric acids
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Whether gibber comes from geber, as Dr Johnson contends, must remain in doubt.
It is also attributed to Geber, a celebrated Arabian alchemist, who lived in Mesopotamia in the eighth century.
A very distinguished chemist, Geber, describes it as one of "the principles of nature."
He made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold; but they went not; for the ships were broken (wrecked) at Ezion-geber.
The very titles of Geber's works show the notions on which this pretended science proceeds.
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