Banu Musa brothers

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The Banu Musa brothers were three 9th-century Persian scholars and engineers in Baghdad renowned for their influential works in mathematics, astronomy, and mechanical inventions during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Persian scholars
astronomers
engineers
group of scholars
inventors
mathematicians
activeDuring 9th century
Islamic Golden Age NERFINISHED
activeIn Baghdad NERFINISHED
House of Wisdom NERFINISHED
associatedWith Bayt al-Hikma NERFINISHED
basedIn Baghdad observatories
contributedTo development of infinitesimal methods
early integral calculus ideas
countryOfOrigin Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED
designed automatic fountains
mechanical musical instruments
self-regulating lamps
trick vessels
era Abbasid era
ethnicOrigin Persian
fieldOfWork astronomical observation
geometry
instrument design
mechanics
influenced Islamic astronomy
Islamic mathematics
medieval European science
influencedBy Greek mathematics
Hellenistic science NERFINISHED
knownFor astronomy
automata
geometric problems
mathematics
mechanical engineering
patronage of scholars
translation of Greek works
languageOfWork Arabic
member Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Shakir NERFINISHED
Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Shakir NERFINISHED
al-Hasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir NERFINISHED
notableWork Book of Ingenious Devices NERFINISHED
Book on the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures NERFINISHED
Kitab al-Hiyal NERFINISHED
patron Caliph al-Ma'mun NERFINISHED
religiousContext Islamic civilization
role court scholars
scientific administrators

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Thabit ibn Qurra associatedWith Banu Musa brothers
Kitab al-Ma‘rifa bi al-Hiyal al-Handasiyya (on devices, including medical) relatedConcept Banu Musa brothers
subject surface form: Kitab al-Ma‘rifa bi al-Hiyal al-Handasiyya
this entity surface form: Banu Musa tradition of hiyal