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Hayyan: the 9th century polymath who brought scientific temper to alchemy
The roots of modern chemistry, a branch of science which gave us new fuels, drugs and essential materials, can be traced back to the 8th and 14th Centuries, in other words, the Golden Age of Islam.
According to reputed German historian, Max Mayerhof, the scientific contribution of one scholar of that era, the alchemist Jabir Ibn Hayaan, became one of the main foundations of the development of chemistry in Europe.
Known as Geber in the western world, Hayyan is credited with having invented several processes which include, among others, distillation, crystallisation, calcination, sublimation and evaporation. All are still used today.
Other innovations attributed to him range from the development of steel, the preparation of various metals, the varnishing of water-proof cloth, dyeing of cloth and tanning of leather. His use of manganese dioxide in glass-making, discovering how to preven
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Episode 80: Magic Books and Rings
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“Der Buddler” aka Mirko Gutjahr, took Travis on a tour of the University of Leipzig Library’s exhibit on magic books and to the Landesmuseum Halle to see magic rings in a “Rings of Power” exhibit. Mirko works at the Martin Luther house in Wittenberg, is an archeologist by trade with tons of stories of digs, and previously a curator at the museum in Halle, including an exhibit on the Sky Disc of Nebra (which we did an episode on for the History of Germany), he’s also the creator of the Secret Cabinet Podcast, which Travis translates to English. He’s been on the show before, but now helps give us a much deeper insight into magical thinking throughout the ages — and how that ties into alchemist’s views of the world.Links for this episode:https://www.uni-leipzig.de/+magica | all the books in the exhibit are online!https://www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/sonderausstellungen/ringe-der-macht.html | on
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Jabir bin Hayyan- The Mystic who created Chemistry
by Media Desk Published on: 11th August 2019
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Multimedia - Videos -Jabir insekter som pollinerar Hayyan is one of the most intriguing figures in the history of science. Why?...
Jabir insekter som pollinerar Hayyan is one of the most intriguing figures in the history of science. Why? Because not only is he the pioneer of the experimental approach to science, but he fryst vatten also the Father of Chemistry. Moreover, there is another dimension to his personality that fryst vatten even more fascinating. He fryst vatten a mystic and the lärjunge of Imam Jafar Sadiq (rh)- the great great grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (saw). This is a prologue to our upcoming episode on Transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence. Now what has Jabir bin Hayyan got to do with these ?