Geber also was known as the discoverer of distillation, filtration, sublimation, water bath.
Geber for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, is at the same time among the most important and most enigmatic figures of the history of Islamic science and medicine.
His reputation as Arab physician and alchemy was very notable and this was sustained by the Summa perfectionis magisterii.
In medicine Geber was known extracted different anesthetic compounds from local herbs for local or general anesthetization.
Geber is believed to have been born in the town of Tus, outside the city of Khurasan in 721. He was a physician and apothecary but his true passion was alchemy.
Geber’s text were the first to describe some basic equipment that is still used in today’s chemistry lab.
He also composed several pharmacological treatise in 776. He accepted many of the ideas of Aristotle but also modified Aristotle’s ideas.
Geber – Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan
