d. 873 Arab Spanish inventor who devised and demonstrated a glider. A native of Cordoba, Ibn Firnas experimented with the manufacture of glass and developed a chain of rings to depict the motions of the stars and planets. Eventually, however, he found...

'Abbas Ibn Firnas, or 'Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas (Latinized name: Armen Firman) (810 – 887 A.D.) (Arabic: العباس بن فرناس) was a Berber[1][2] polymath: an aviator, chemist, humanitarian, inventor, musician, physician, poet, and...

Edited by CHARLES BURNETT and DANIELLE JACQUART. Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 10. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1994. Pp. ix + 364. HF1 172.50, $108.50. This volume contains fifteen conference papers (four are in French) originally presented at the Warburg Institute in...

30 years after debut, Swedish supergroup still having an impact DAYTON - There are cultural phenomena. There are subcultural phenomena. And there are whole worlds co-existing in parallel universes to our own. You may have glimpses of those worlds as you go...