Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: 720 births, 721 births, 722 births, 723 births, 724 births, 725 births, 726 births, 727 births, 728 births, 729 births, J bir ibn Hayy n, Paul the Deacon, Pope Stephen III, Emperor Daizong of Tang, Li Mi, Ma Sui, Li Sheng, Li Huaiguang, Cui Ning, Yang Yan, Zhang Yanshang, Han Huang, Dong Jin, Yu Chao'en, Chang Gun, Cui Youfu, Pei Yanling, Du Huangshang, Liu Peng, Timothy I, Sufyan ibn Uyaynah, As-Saffah, Liu Zi, Modestus, Baizhang Huaihai, Stephen the Hymnographer, Isma'il ibn Jafar, Lalla, Abu 'Ubaida, AEthelbert II of Kent, Arbeo of Freising, Sakanoue no Karitamaro, Orso Ipato, Fujiwara no Hamanari, Fujiwara no Tsugutada, Grifo, Bernard, son of Charles Martel, Gundebold, Fujiwara no Uona, Thierry IV. Excerpt: Abu Musa J bir ibn Hayy n (Arabic: ), (Persian: ) (born c. 721 in Tus, Iran-died c. 815 in Kufa, Iraq) was a prominent polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geologist, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. Born and educated in Tus, located in Iran's Persian heartland of Khorasan, he later traveled to Kufa. J bir is held to be the first practical alchemist. As early as the tenth century, the identity and exact corpus of works of J bir was in dispute in Islamic circles. His name was Latinized as "Geber" in the Christian West and in 13th century Europe an anonymous writer, usually referred to as Pseudo-Geber, produced alchemical and metallurgical writings under the pen-name Geber. In 987 Ibn al-Nadim compiled the Kitab al-Fihrist which mentions Jabir as a spiritual leader and as a companion to Jafar al-Sadiq (he is not listed among the students of Jafar but many of the writings of the Jabirian corpus are dedicated to Jafar). In an other reference al-Nadim reports that a group philosophers claimed Jabir was one of their own members. Another group, reported by al-..