Pseudo-Geber — Summa Perfectionis

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Pseudo-Geber — Summa Perfectionis

A Latin author writing under the name "Geber" produces the Summa Perfectionis, the most influential medieval European alchemical text. It is the first to describe a corpuscular (proto-atomic) theory of matter and lays out the laboratory mineral acids.

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