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Geber, Arab alchemist and physician

Geber: see Jabir Jabir or Geber , fl. 8th cent., Arab alchemist and physician, originally named Jabir ibn Hayyan. He is believed to have lived at Kufa and at Baghdad.
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Geber, in the Bible

Geber (gē`bər), in the Bible.

1 Father of a steward of Solomon.

2 Officer of Solomon.

Geber
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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Regarding the formation of metals, while rejecting the possibility of alchemical transmutation, he accepted the Jabirean sulphur-mercury theory which he combined with the mineralogical theories of Aristotle and Theophrastus.
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