The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved the naming of a crater on the moon after Ibn Firas: the lunar impact crater, Ibn Firnas
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Abbas Ibn Firnas
Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbbās ibn Firnās ibn Wardās al-Tākurunnī, known as ʿAbbās ibn Firnās was an Andalusi polymath: an inventor, astronomer, physician, chemist, engineer, musician, and poet. He was reported to have experimented with unpowered flight.
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science · 9th-century astronomer and physician · inventor · physician · chemist · musician · poet · astronomer · scholar · also Abbas Ibn Firnas, Abbas ibn Firnas, Abbas Ibn Farnas, Ibn Firnas, Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas, Abbas ibn Fernas
Born 0810 · Died 0887 · Q305975
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A statue of Ibn Firnas by the sculptor Badri al-Samarrai was installed at the Baghdad International Airport, in Iraq
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