Geber

According to this interesting alchemistic work, the Art of Alchemy consists, not in reducing the imperfect metals to their first substance, but in carrying forward Nature s woilc, developing the imperfect metals to perfection and removing their impure sulphur. 

Nicolas Flamel (see plate 8) was bom about 1330, probably in Paris. His parents were poor, and Nicolas took up the trade of a scrivener. In the course of time, Flamel became a very wealthy man and, at the same time, it appears, one who exhibited considerable munificence. This increase in Flamel s wealth has been attributed to supposed success in the Hermetic Art. We are told that a remarkable book came into the young scrivener s possession, which, at first, he was unable to understand, until, at last, he had the good fortune to meet an adept who translated its mysteries for him. This book revealed the occult secrets of Alchemy, and by its means Nicolas was enabled 

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Afbeit-geber, m. employer. netmier, m. workman, employee. 

Funken-garbe, /. shower of sparks, -geber, m. sparking device, spark coil, -holz, n. touch-wood. -induktor, m. spark coil, induction coil. 

Geber, m. giver, donor Teleg., etc.) transmitter, sender. 

Rat-geber, m. counselor, adviser manual, guide, -hsus, n. tow hall, rationell, a. rational, reasonable economical. 

This manuscript was first discussed by Carbonelli, but he did not provide a detailed analysis of its style and contents and it has received little attention since.The text is composed of aphorisms of famous alchemists who include Hermes Trismegistus, Aristode, Geber, Amald of Villanova, Senior and characters from the Turba Phibsophorum, such as Rasis. They give instructions about the secrets of the process and the text is supported by visual imagery, arranged in a narrative... 

Contents (excluding medical part) Praecipiolum, pp. 163-175 The key of Helmont and Lilly, pp.175-176 The opening of Sol and Luna, pp.176. Together with other major works, separted entered under Hermes, Kallid, Geber, Artephius, Flamel, Bacon and Ripley... 

Jabir ibn Hayyan.The alchemical works of Geber / translated into English in 1678 by Richard Russell introduction by E.J. Holmyard preface by Todd Pratum. Edited by... 

Jabir ibn Hayyan.The discovery of secrets attributed to Geber from the ms. With a rendering into English by R.R. Steele. Translated by R.R. Steele. London Luzac for Geber Society, 1892. 8p. 

Jabir ibn Hayyan. Geber s Discovery of Secrets. rhttp //www. 1 evitv. com/al chem v/ geb erdi s. html 1. 

This Geber text was translated by Robert R. Steele from the original manuscript. It was the first work printed by the Geber Society in England. This has been transcribed by Antonio Balestra. 

Jabir ibn Hayyan. "Gebri Arabis Summa the sum of Geber Arabs, collected and digested, by William Salmon. .." InMedicinapractica, ed. William Salmon, 335-472. London , 1707. 

Jabir ibn Hayyan.The Summa Perfectionis of pseudo-Geber a critical edition, translation and study by William R. Newman. Edited by William Royall Newman. Leiden, New York Brill, 1991. iv, 785 p. 

Jabir ibn Hayyan.The works of Geber the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher / faithfully Englished by R.R., a lover of chymistry. Translated by Richard Russell. London Printed for N.E. by Thomas James. .. and are to be sold by Robert Clavel. .., 1678. 8 p. 1., 302 p. 

Jabir ibn Hayyan.The Works of Geber. English ed. by Richard Russell, 1678. Edited by Eric John Holmyard. 1928 reprint, Kila (MT) Kessinger, 1997. 

Argues that this most influential treatise on chemistry of the late Middle Ages was most probably written by Paul of Taranto, rather than, as usually assumed, Geber... 

Plessner, Martin. Geber and Jabir ibn Hayyan an authentic sixteenth-century quotation from Jabir. Ambix 16, no. 3 (Nov 1969) 113-118. 

Debus, Allen George. The Geber tradition in Western alchemy and chemistry. J Hist Arabic Sci 8 (1984) 3-29. 

Newman, William Royall. "Experimental corpuscular theory in Aristotelian alchemy Geber to Sennert." In Late medieval and early modern corpuscular matter... 

Holmyard, Eric John. The present position of the Geber problem. Sci Prog 19, no. 75 (Jan 1925) 415-426. 

Newman, William Royall. New light on the identity of Geber. Sudhoffs Archiv GesMedNaturwiss 69 (1985) 76-90. 

Suess, H. E., Radiocarbon Variations and Absolute Chronology, 12th Nobel Symposium, Uppsala, 1971, Proc Stockholm, Almquist and Wiksell-Gebers Forlag AB, 1969, 303. 

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