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Geber
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Geber [ˈdʒiːbə]
n
(Biographies / Geber (14th-century 14th-century M, Spanish, SCIENCE: chemist) Latinized form of Jabir, assumed in honour of Jabir ibn Hayyan by a 14th-century alchemist, probably Spanish: he described the preparation of nitric and sulphuric acids
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William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (2)) ONE OF THE MOST SUBVERSIVE MOMENTS IN WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR'S Gebir occurs in book six when Tamar, a poor shepherd and Gebir's brother, falls madly in love with an Egyptian nymph who takes him on a magical flight over Europe.
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Byline: Richard Edmonds Gabriel Woolf's fascinating and well-researched programme on the English eccentric Walter Savage Landor resurrected a poet whose fame rests mainly today on his obscure poem Gebir -an Arabian Nights fantasy much admired by Shelley.
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