Real
Name: Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan
Gever lived in the 7th century A.D. His
father was
executed while he was still young, and he turned towards the study of
alchemy and
mysticism.
He wrote five books on the following subjects:
1. Of the Investigation or
Search of Perfection
2. Of the
Sum of Perfection, The first
book
3. Of the Sum of
Perfection, The second book
4. Of the
Invention of Verity
5. Of
Furnaces
Geber went beyond the
common view of the time of all substances being made of
earth, air, water, and fire. He believed that any
metal that was dry and
smokey was
sulphur, and any one that was
watery was
mercury. The conbinations of such made up all the metals. The different metals were from different
purities of the sulphur and
mercury;
gold being the most
pure,
balanced, combination of the two.
Geber also
outlines how one may create any metal from simple processes (alchemy basically)