ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (Banu Musa), Abū Jafar Muhammad (803 - 873)

Inventor, designer

Abū Jafar Muhammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir was one of the three Banū Mūsā brothers (letterallyb"Sons of Moses"), were three 9th-century Persian scholars of Baghdad who are known for their Book of Ingenious Devices on automata (automatic machines) and mechanical devices .
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, designer, inventor, treatizer, automata

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Curriculum Vitae

9. century		He is known always with his two brothers Ahmad and Al-Hasan as “The Banu Musa brothers”
* 803	n.n.	Né
810		Al-Mamūn recognized his abilities and enrolled him in the famous House of Wisdom, a library and a translation center in Baghdad.
810		After their father’s death, he was looked after by the court of al-Mamūn
830 - 873		He and his brothers wrote “Book on the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures”
830 - 873		He and his brothers wrote “The Book of Ingenious Devices”
† 873	Baghdad	Décédé

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Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_13291004.html

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