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  • Of all the Arabian alchemists, Geber has been regarded as the greatest; as Professor Meyer says: "there can be no dispute that with the name Geber was propagated the memory of a personality with which the chemical knowledge of the time was bound up."

    Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

  • The famed alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, also known as Geber, who lived from 721 to 815, observed that heated wine released a flammable vapor—“of little use, but of great importance to science”—and he invented the alembic to capture it.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • The famed alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, also known as Geber, who lived from 721 to 815, observed that heated wine released a flammable vapor—“of little use, but of great importance to science”—and he invented the alembic to capture it.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • The famed alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, also known as Geber, who lived from 721 to 815, observed that heated wine released a flammable vapor—“of little use, but of great importance to science”—and he invented the alembic to capture it.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • 009: 026 King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea {or, Sea of Reeds}, in the land of Edom.

    The World English Bible (WEB): Anonymous

  • n, more commonly known as Geber or Jabir, was born in Tus, Khorasan (present day Iran).

    We Blog A Lot 2008

  • n, more commonly known as Geber or Jabir, was born in Tus, Khorasan (present day Iran).

    We Blog A Lot 2008

  • Arabs, such as Geber and Alfarabius, cultivated the Hermetic science,

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • There is a poem called 'Geber' of which I know not whether my review of it, in the Critical 'be yet printed, but in that review you will find some of the most exquisite poetry in the language.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • There is a poem called 'Geber' of which I know not whether my review of it, in the Critical 'be yet printed, but in that review you will find some of the most exquisite poetry in the language.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

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