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ABBAS IBNU FIRNAS is the inventor of the airplane construction.

Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas was born in 810 AD in Izn-Rand Onda, Al-Andalus (now Ronda,
Spain). He is well-known experts in the various disciplines, in addition to a chemist, he was
also a humanist, inventor, musician, naturalist, poet, and a technology activist. The man of
Moroccan descent live in the reign of the Umayyad caliph in Andalusia (Spain).
In 852, under the reign of Caliph Abd al-Rahman II, Ibn Firnas decided to do a test 'fly'
from the minaret Mezquita in Cordoba using a sort of cloak propped wing wood. The artificial
wing turned out to make it float while in the air and slow the fall, he managed to land even with
minor injuries. The tools used Ibn Firnas is then known as the first parachute in
dunia.Keberhasilannya that does not necessarily make it complacent. He returned to a series of
research and development of concepts and theories which he adopted from the natural
phenomena that are often noticed.
In 875, when the age of 65 years, Ibnu Firnas designing and creating a flying machine
capable of carrying humans. Once the final version has been established, he deliberately
inviting people to participate Cordoba witness his historic flight in Jabal Al-'Arus (Mount of
the Bride) in the Rusafa neighborhood, close to Cordoba.
Flights witnessed by the community was fairly successful. Unfortunately, because of the
way glide poor, Ibn Firnas slammed into the ground along with the best homemade kite. He
also suffered severe back injury. The injury is what makes Ibn Firnas powerless to do next test.
The accident occurred because the Ibnu Firnas negligent noticed how birds use their tails
to land. He also forgot to add a tail on a model glider makes. This negligence which resulted
in him failing to land the aircraft with a perfect creation.
A back injury that never healed deliver Ibnu Firnas on research projects in the laboratory.
As usual, he examines the phenomena of nature in practice the mechanism of occurrence of
thunder and lightning, determining astronomical tables, and designing a water clock called Al-
Maqata. Ibn Firnas also successfully developed a formula for making glass from sand. Also
develop visual chain rings are used to show the movement of the planets and stars.
PIRI REIS
Piri Reis was born in Gillipoli, Turkey, in 1465. Piri Reis is a tough sailor. He had led
the fleet at the time of the Ottoman Caliphate. 1513 is the first year in which for the first time
Piri Reis made a map of the world. Then, the idea in 1521, he posted a map duia it created into
buk entitled al-Bahriy first version. The book was written Piri Reis in the span of five years
(1521-1526). In the book, complete with navigation instructions and the state of the country
ever dikujunginya.
In 1528-1529, the fleet leader of Piri Reis are fighting the Portuguese army in the Red
Sea and the Indian Ocean. These events provide the inspiration for Piri Reis to mmenulis book
al-Bahriy second version. This book is projected as a complement to the first book.
Al-Bahriy book is a complete guide in the world of shipping. The book is a combination
of fishing techniques and geographical observations. All ordinances and fishing gear
thoroughly discussed in this book. The first version of this book consists of 132 chapters and
the second book consists of 210 chapters.
Piri Reis noted to have set sail from Africa, South America and Antarctica. In fact, the
new Europeans discovered the continent of Antarctic ice was in 1818. According to ebuah
sources, maps of the Americas made the Piri Reis map is more accurate than that made
Christopher Colombus. Map written Colombus very difficult to find the original version.
Now, the book al-Bahriy can still be found, but scattered in several places in Europe, it
was mostly the first version. There are only a few manuscripts stored neatly in several museums
in Turkey.

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