Geber

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Name: Portrait of Geber 
Author: unknown
Date: 1584
Medium: Engraving
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Credit: Wellcome Library
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Copyright: CC BY 4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International).
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Description: During this period there was no clear distinction between Jabir ibn Hayyan, a famous Arab physician and alchemist, and Geber, a Latin follower tentatively identified by William Newman with Paul of Taranto (13th century). Geber was highly interested in corpuscularianism and formulated the mercury-sulphur theory of metals. He was particularly interested in turning base metals into gold but believed this was only given to true alchemists / philosophers.