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BANUU MUSAA
BANU MUSA

Biography:

•	The Banu Musa brothers were three brothers: Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Shakir, Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Shakir and Al-Hasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir.

•	They were scholars from the 9th century that lived and worked in Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid dynasty that ruled the Muslim Empire for several centuries

•	During the al-Ma'mun caliphate between 813 and 833, had a successful career in astronomy and geometry.

•	The Banu Musa worked in astronomy observatories that were built in Baghdad by the Abbasid Caliph, al-Ma'mun, and did research in the House of Wisdom.

Contribution to science and math:

•	Their most famous work is The Book of the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures, which had important mathematical contributions in.

•	In astronomy, they measured a degree of the latitude of the earth and they used this for a journey to northern Mesopotamia. •	They also made observations of the sun and the moon from Baghdad, which helped them measure the length of a year of 365 days and 6 hours. •	The Banu Musa Brothers, mostly Ahmad, were also known for their achievements in mechanics, with their book, The Book of Ingenious Devices ( Kitab al-hiyal).

•	In this book, 100 of devices are explained in great details that consist of: 73 trick vessels, 15 automatic controls, 7 water jets, 3 oil lamps, and 2 other lifting mechanical systems.

Facts

•	Banu Musa is the “Sons of Musa”.

•	The translated the Greek scientific works into Arabic, which also led the astronomical observations in Baghdad and organized a school of translators.

•	Their father was Musa ibn Shakir