The first essential in chemistry is that you should perform practical work and conduct experiments, for he who performs not practical work nor makes experiments will never attain to the least degree of mastery. But you, O my son, do experiment's so that you may acquire knowledge. Scientists delight not in abundance of material; they rejoice only in the excellence of their experimental methods.
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (c. 721 – c. 815), also known by the Latinization Geber, was a polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician.
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Native Name:
جابر بن حيّان بن عبد الله الكوفي الأزدي
Alternative Names:
Jābir ibn Hayyān
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Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan
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Jabir ibn al-Hayyan
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Jābir ibn al-Hayyān
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Geber
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Gebir
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Jaber ebn-e Hayan
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