This book tells the life story of the brilliant scientist Jabir ibn Hayyan ibn Abdullah al-Azdi, who lived about twelve hundred years ago. He was the father of chemistry and the first to establish rules for the experimental scientific method. He described chemical processes, instruments, and experiments, wrote about the formation of minerals, chemical reactions and compounds, and metals, and discovered chemical preparations that laid foundations for the sciences of polymers, dyeing, tanning, and poisons.