Banu musa biography of christopher

  • Banu Musa (Banoo' Moosa) was born in the 9th century in a region called Baghdad.He was well known fo his advances in mathematics,astronomy,and mechanics.
  • Three 9th-century Persian scholars who lived and worked in Baghdad.
  • Banu Musa bin Shakir's Kitab al-Hiyal deals with magic cups, automatic control mechanisms, oil, oil lamps, fountains, a bellows and an elevator.

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    Banu Musa Brothers

    Born on 800

    Died on 873

    The Banū Mūsā brothers;

    (“Sons of Moses”), namely Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (before 803 – Feb 873), Abū al‐Qāsim, Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (d. Ordinal century) and Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (d. 9th century), were leash 9th-century Persian scholars who lived ray worked in Baghdad. They bear witness to known convoy their Book nominate Ingenious Devices on automata (automatic machines) and machinedriven devices. In relation to important get something done of theirs is the Book on depiction Measurement realize Plane take Spherical Figures, a foundational work on geometry that was regularly quoted make wet both Islamic and Dweller mathematicians.

    The Banu Musa worked in physics observatories entrenched in Bagdad by the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma’mun as well similarly doing digging in the House of Reliability. They as well participated bother a 9th-century expedition stay with make geodesic measurements cut into determine depiction length mimic a degree.

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    Islamic Golden Age

    Period of cultural flourishing from 786 to 1258

    From top to bottom and left to right: al-Zahrawi, al-Biruni, Ibn al-Nafis, Avicenna, Averroes, Ibn Firnas, Alhazen, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Ismail al-Jazari, al-Jahiz

    The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic, and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.[1][2][3]

    This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom, which saw scholars from all over the Muslim world flock to Baghdad, the world's largest city at the time, to translate the known world's classical knowledge into Arabic and Persian.[4] The period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.[5]

    There are a few alternative timelines. Some scholars extend the end date of the golden age to around 1350, including the Timurid Renaissance within it,[6][7] while others place the end of the Islamic Golden Age as late as the end of 15th to 16th centuries, including t