Abbas Ibn Firnas Net Worth

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Abbas Ibn Firnas was a renowned polymath from Al-Andalus, Spain, who is best known for being the first person to successfully demonstrate a controlled flight of a human being. He is credited with many inventions, including a water clock, a device to cut rock crystal, and clear glass used for correcting vision. His achievements have been recognized by naming a crater on the moon and an airport in Baghdad after him. He is also credited with inspiring others to research the subject of aeronautics, as he documented the idea of a flying machine in his book.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it?	Polymath
Birth Place	Izn-Rand Onda (Ronda), Al-Andalus, Spanish
Died On	887\nCordoba
Other names	Abu l-Qāsim Abbās ibn Firnās, Armen Firman
Ethnicity	Berber
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Religion	Islam
Main interest(s)	Medicine, astrology, engineering

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Abbas Ibn Firnas, also known as Polymath in Spanish, is a historical figure highly regarded for his varied talents and achievements. His net worth in 2024 is estimated to be between $100,000 and $1 million. Ibn Firnas, born in 810 AD in Spain, was a scholar, inventor, and poet, known for his contributions to various fields, including aviation, engineering, and literature. His groundbreaking experiments in flight and his invention of a rudimentary glider make him an important pioneer in aeronautics. Ibn Firnas' intellectual prowess and diverse skills have made him an iconic figure of the medieval era.

Famous Quotes:

Among other very curious experiments which he made, one is his trying to fly. He covered himself with feathers for the purpose, attached a couple of wings to his body, and, getting on an eminence, flung himself down into the air, when according to the testimony of several trustworthy writers who witnessed the performance, he flew a considerable distance, as if he had been a bird, but, in alighting again on the place whence he had started, his back was very much hurt, for not knowing that birds when they alight come down upon their tails, he forgot to provide himself with one.

Biography/Timeline

1632

Some seven centuries after the death of Firnas, the Moroccan Historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (d. 1632) wrote a description of Firnas that included the following:

1988

Al-Maqqari is said to have used in his history works "many early sources no longer extant", but in the case of Firnas, he does not cite his sources for the details of the reputed FLIGHT, though he does claim that one verse in a 9th-century Arab poem is actually an allusion to Firnas's FLIGHT. The poem was written by Mu'min ibn Said, a court poet of Córdoba under Muhammad I (d. 886), who was acquainted with and usually critical of Ibn Firnas. The pertinent verse runs: "He flew faster than the phoenix in his FLIGHT when he dressed his body in the feathers of a vulture." No other surviving sources refer to the event.

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