İsmail bin Hammâd el-Cevherî was a Turkish-Islamic Scholar who lived in the 10th and 11th centuries. He had a desire to fly in the sky. İsmail Cevherî tied the wooden wings he made himself to his two arms and climbed on top of a mosque in Nishapur to test his flight. He said to the people gathered there: "O people, no one has ever made the invention I made. It is before your eyes now." "I will fly. The most important thing to do in the world is to fly to the skies. That's what I will do." saying, he jumped over the mosque. But after flying for a while, he fell to the ground and died.
Source:
1.Prof. Dr. Habil Arslan, Terzioğlu (28 February 2009). "Manuscripts of Flying Experiments and Techniques in Turkish-Islamic Culture from the IXth Century to the End of the XVIIIth Century"
2.Piero Boitani - Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History
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20 сен 2023