William R. Newman
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Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington. Author of Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature and Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution, among others.
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AbÅ« MÅ«sÄ JÄbir ibn įø¤ayyÄn was a Muslim alchemist known as the father of Arabic chemistry. He systematized a āquantitativeā analysis of substances and was the inspiration for Geber, a Latin alchemist who developed an important corpuscular theory of matter. According to tradition, JÄbir was anā¦
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