• Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (d. 9th century), were Persian scholars who lived and worked in Baghdad. They are collectively known as the Banū Mūsā (Arabic:...
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    published in 850 by the three brothers of Persian descent, the Banū Mūsā brothers (Ahmad, Muhammad and Hasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir) working at the House...
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    Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī might have been the same person as Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir, the eldest of the three Banū Mūsā brothers. Al-Khwārizmī's...
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    1992, pp. 45, 61 Banū Mūsā; Hill, Donald Routledge (1979), The Book of Ingenious Devices (Kitáb al-Ḥiyal) by the Banú (sons of) Músà bin Shákir, Springer...
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  • was introduced by Sanad ibn Ali. According to Ibn Abi Usaibia: the Banū Mūsā brothers out of sheer professional jealousy kept him away from Abbasid Caliph...
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    crank appears in several of the hydraulic devices described by the Banū Mūsā brothers in their Book of Ingenious Devices. These automatically operated cranks...
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    on that of a Pseudo-Archimedes. He also cites the influence of the Banū Mūsā brothers for his fountains, al-Saghani for the design of a candle clock, and...
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    largest Arabic text on surgery during the entire medieval period. The Banū Mūsā brothers, in their 9th century Book of Ingenious Devices, describe an automatic...
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  • 9th century by the Banū Mūsā brothers in Baghdad, is the first known example of a programmable machine. The work of the Banu Musa was influenced by their...
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    Lewis, a flute player whose mechanism was described by the Persian Banū Mūsā brothers in the 9th century AD and can be "reasonably" attributed to Apollonius...
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    was the most important of the works produced by the Banū Mūsā (three 9th century Persian brothers who worked in Baghdad). A Latin translation by the 12th...
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    astrologer Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934), geographer and mathematician Banū Mūsā brothers (9th century) Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, historian Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi, historian...
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    public daily on a rotational basis. 9th century: In Baghdad, the Banū Mūsā brothers, a trio of Persian inventors, produced "the earliest known mechanical...
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    water clock and its feedback control system obsolete. The Persian Banū Mūsā brothers, in their Book of Ingenious Devices (850 AD), described a number of...
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  • Zanj Rebellion against the slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate; the Banū Mūsā brothers, a trio of scholars and inventors; Muhammad ibn Tahir, the last Tahirid...
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  • Mūsā ibn Shākir (Arabic: موسى بن شاكر) was the father of the three Banū Mūsā ("Sons of Musa") brothers, the renowned 9th-century scholars of Baghdad. Earlier...
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    mid-9th century in several of the hydraulic devices described by the Banū Mūsā brothers in their Book of Ingenious Devices. These devices, however, made only...
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    possibly automatic hydropowered organ), a mechanical organ by the Banū Mūsā brothers [citation needed] Medieval organs include: Portative organ: a small...
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    birds on it flapping their wings and singing. In the 9th century, the Banū Mūsā brothers invented a programmable automatic flute player and which they described...
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    The Banu Qasi, Banu Kasi, Beni Casi (Arabic: بني قسي or بنو قسي, meaning "sons" or "heirs of Cassius"), Banu Musa, or al-Qasawi were a Muladí (local convert)...
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    in particular regarding his work in optics. In engineering, the Banū Mūsā brothers' automatic flute player is considered to have been the first programmable...
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    invented by Muslim engineers, such as the automatic flute player by the Banū Mūsā brothers. Technological artifacts of similar complexity appeared in 14th century...
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  • 9th century by the Banū Mūsā brothers in Baghdad, is the first known example of a programmable machine. The work of the Banu Musa was influenced by their...
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  • remarkably old. As early as the 9th century, the Persian (Iranian) Banū Mūsā brothers invented a hydropowered organ using exchangeable cylinders with pins...
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    بن أبي بكر بن أبي الأسود, romanized: Mūsā ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī al-Aswad), and ibn Hajar gave Musa's name as Musa ibn Abi Bakr Salim al-Takruri (Arabic:...
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    so on. Mūsā ibn Shākir was an astrologer and a friend of Caliph Harun al-Rashid's son, al-Ma'mun. His sons, collectively known as the Banū Mūsā (Sons of...
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    Wisdom (1121), invented a hydrostatic balance. In the 9th century, Banū Mūsā brothers' Book of Ingenious Devices described a number of early automatic controls...
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  • Antonius Musa, Roman botanist and physician Balkisu Musa (born 1970), Nigerian weightlifter Banū Mūsā, 9th century Persian family of scholars Džanan Musa (born...
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    music reproduction traces back as far as the 9th century, when the Banū Mūsā brothers invented the earliest known mechanical musical instrument, in this...
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    apogee had earlier been detected by Thabit ibn Qurra (or perhaps the Banū Mūsā brothers). From the diagram, it can be shown that: tan ⁡ q = O A O D = sin...
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