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Banū Mūsā brothers
9th-century Persian scholars
The three brothers Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (before – February ); Abū al-Qāsim, Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (d.
9th century) and Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (d. 9th century), were Persian scholars who lived and worked in Baghdad.
Bernoulli family
They are collectively known as the Banū Mūsā (Arabic: بنو موسی, "Sons of Mūsā (or Moses)").
The Banū Mūsā were the sons of Mūsā ibn Shākir, who was a well-known Astronomer of al-Ma'mun, a son of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid.
After their father's death, the brothers received an education under al-Ma'mun’s direction, and were enrolled at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. There they undertook the translation of ancient Greek works acquired from Byzantium, which they used to develop their own technological, mathematical and astronomical ideas.
They were some of the earliest scholars to adopt Greek mathematics, but innovative in their approach to the concepts of area and circumferen