Banu musa brothers biography of williams
Banu Musa brothers—Moḥammad, Aḥmad, and Ḥasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir, were Persian scholars who lived and worked in Baghdad in the 9th century, under caliph Al-Ma..
Book of Ingenious Devices
9th-century Islamic scientific text by the Banū Mūsā brothers
The Book of Ingenious Devices (Arabic: كتاب الحيل, romanized: Kitāb al-Ḥiyāl, Persian: كتاب ترفندها, romanized: Ketâb tarfandhâ, lit. 'Book of Tricks') is a large illustrated work on mechanical devices, including automata, published in 850 by the three brothers of Persian[1] descent, the Banū Mūsā brothers (Ahmad, Muhammad and Hasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir) working at the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma) in Baghdad, Iraq, under the Abbasid Caliphate.[2] The book described about one hundred devices and how to use them.[3]
Overview
The book was commissioned by the AbbasidCaliph of Baghdad, Al-Ma'mun (786–833), who instructed the Banū Mūsā brothers to acquire all of the Hellenistic texts that had been preserved by monasteries[specify] and by scholars[who?] during the decline and fall of Roman civilizatio