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In ninth-century Cordoba a polymath named ‘Abbas ibn Firnas supposedly built wings, jumped from a hill, glided, and landed painfully. Historians still argue over how much of that story is true. This book separates the reported parts of his life (poetry, glassmaking, astronomy, a water clock) from the later legend, explains how one man became a symbol of Muslim scientific ambition, and asks why such a famous flight rests on such thin evidence.
Every claim gets a Source Check: solid, likely, disputed or legend.
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