Abbas Ibn Firnas

[Zuiver-Amazigh]

Abbas Ibn Firnas (810 â€" 887 A.D.), also known as Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas and was an Arabic-speaking Berber, born in Izn-Rand Onda, al-Andalus (today's Ronda, Spain), who lived in the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba in al-Andalus. He was a polymath, aviator, chemist, engineer, humanitarian, inventor, musician, physician, physicst, poet, astronomer and technologist.


Inventions

Ibn Firnas designed a water clock called Al-Maqata, devised a means of manufacturing colorless glass, made corrective lenses ("reading stones"), developed a chain of rings that could be used to display the motions of the planets and stars, and developed a process for cutting rock crystal that allowed Spain to cease exporting quartz to Egypt to be cut.

Another one of his inventions was an artificial weather simulation room in which spectators saw and were astonished by stars, clouds, artificial thunder, and lightning which were produced by mechanisms hidden in his basement laboratory.

According to Lynn Townsend White, Jr., Ibn Firnas was also an inventor of "some sort of metronome." Ibn Firnas also built and made an attempt to fly a rudimentary ornithopter.


Aviation
Ibn Firnas once asked himself in a personal ledger:

"What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?"

In 875, at the age of 65, possibly inspired by the earlier attempt at flight by Armen Firman, Ibn Firnas made his first attempt at flight using a rudimentary ornithopter and launched from the Mount of the Bride (Jabal al-'Arus) in the Rusafa Area, near Córdoba, Spain. However, it ended in a crash and injury to his back. This failure left critics saying he hadn't taken proper account of the way birds land, having provided neither a tail nor a means for landing.

Ibn Firnas died twelve years later in 887, at the age of 77.


[edit] Eyewitness accounts
Several eye witnesses reported the event. Ibn Firnas stated the following, moments before he flew:

"Presently, I shall take leave of you. By guiding these wings up and down, I should ascend like the birds. If all goes well, after soaring for a time I should be able to return safely to your side."

One of the witnesses reported:

"Having constructed the final version of his glider, to celebrate its success he invited the people of Cordoba to come and witness his flight. People watched from a nearby mountain as he flew some distance, but then the glider plummeted to the ground causing him to injure his back..."

Another account states:

"We thought ibn Firnas certainly mad ... and we feared for his life!"

Another witness, the poet Mu'min Ibn Said (d. 886), reported:

"He flew faster than the phoenix in his flight when he dressed his body in the feathers of a vulture."

Based on these and other eyewitness accounts, the early 17th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari described the event as follows:

"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."




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[TamurtIno]

Abs Ibn Firnas staat in de Arabische geschiedenisboeken als de eerste mens die probeerde te vliegen. Deze mens is dus een Arabier, volgens Arabische historici. De man komt uit Andalusië en het staat nergens dat hij een Arabier is, behalve in Arabische boeken. Sommige Berbers beweren nu dat hij een Amazigh was. 

De man kwam uit Andalus en is misschien noch een Amazigh noch een Arabier. Mooie dingen heeft hij ook niet gedaan. Buiten het Arabische rijk, weet niemand van het bestaan van deze domme mens die voor Arabieren een Berbers een slimme mens was.

Abbs maakte vleugels van stof en verbindt ze vast aan zijn handen. Vervolgens sprong hij uit uit een berg om te vliegen. Hij viel op de grond dood.

[Bades]

Ach.. het is blijkbaar wel de eerste die uiting gaf aan het idee/wil om te vliegen.
Heeft miss ook zijn waarde?

Schijndat een/de vliegveld van Baghdad naar hem vernoemd is.