715 - 800 [chemistry] Geber (Jabir ibn Hayyan), a Muslim chemist, is considered the father of chemistry, for introducing the experimental scientific method for chemistry, as well as the alembic, still, retort, pure distillation, liquefaction, crystallisation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation, and filtration.He was also the first chemist known to produce sulfuric acid, as well as many other chemical substances and laboratory instruments. His works include The elaboration of the Grand Elixir, The chest of wisdom in which he writes on nitric acid, Kitab al-Istitmam (translated to Latin later as Summa Perfectionis), and many others.
715 - 800 [alchemy] Geber, also a Muslim alchemist, introduces the first theories on the transmutation of metals, the philosopher's stone, and the artificial creation of life in the laboratory.
715 - 800 [glass] Geber wrote on adding colour to glass by adding small quantities of metallic oxides to the glass, such as manganese dioxide (magnesia). This was a new advancement in the glass industry unknown in antiquity.
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