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"If this was the comet Eilmer remembered from his youth, then he may have been born much later than historians have believed. That, in turn, would push the date of his famous flight forward by several decades."

When Did a Medieval Monk First Try to Fly? New Study Reopens the Debate - Medievalists.net

A new study reopens the debate over Eilmer of Malmesbury's famous flight, suggesting the medieval monk's remarkable experiment may have happ

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Drew this one for @yankingmyvajane. Was a super fun way to break the art block I’ve been struggling with lately.

Very gay moment from one of the latest D&D sessions.

[the-mediaeval-monk]

Eilmer of Malmesbury: The Monk Who Flew (Sort Of)

From Daedalus to the Wright Brothers to NASA flying a tiny helicopter on Mars, the concept of flight has fascinated humanity for millennia.

From Daedalus to the Wright Brothers to NASA flying a tiny helicopter on Mars, the concept of flight has fascinated humanity for millennia. This was no different for an 11th-century monk named Eilmer (AKA Elmer/Oliver. Oliver is due to a misreading). Eilmer of Malmesbury was briefly mentioned in William of Malmesbury’s Gesta regum Anglorum. Sadly this text is really the only surviving account we have about Eilmer. That being said, his works about astrology (now lost) were referenced as late as the 16th century.

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Eilmer of Malmesbury - The Flying Monk

Eilmer of Malmesbury (also known as Oliver due to a scribe's miscopying, or Elmer, or Æthelmær) was an 11th-century English Benedictine monk of Malmesbury Abbey who wrote on astronomy.  All that is known of him is from the Gesta regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings), written by the eminent medieval historian William of Malmesbury in about 1125. Being a fellow monk of the same abbey, William almost certainly obtained his account directly from people who knew Eilmer when he was an old man.

William records that, in Eilmer's youth, he had read and believed the Greek myth of Daedalus and studied the contributions of the Islamic Golden Age, including Abbas ibn Firnas's flight. Thus, Eilmer fixed wings to his hands and feet and launched himself from the top of a tower at Malmesbury Abbey:

"He was a man learned for those times, of ripe old age, and in his early youth had hazarded a deed of remarkable boldness. He had by some means, I scarcely know what, fastened wings to his hands and feet so that, mistaking fable for truth, he might fly like Daedalus, and, collecting the breeze upon the summit of a tower, flew for more than a furlong [201 metres]. But agitated by the violence of the wind and the swirling of air, as well as by the awareness of his rash attempt, he fell, broke both his legs and was lame ever after. He used to relate as the cause of his failure, his forgetting to provide himself a tail."

Though the path of his flight is unclear, to have travelled a full furlong (660 ft) he would likely have had to remain airborne for approximately 15 seconds.

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Axel Holy & Roper Williams - Self Esteem (ft. Flying Monk)

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Split Prophets - The Forecast - 2019

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D3DW8 Ft Flying Monk - DI£ FL¥

Friday 20th May 2016

Showing how ill all the members of the Split Prophets crew are. D3DW8 (Blanka) and Flying Monk come together and create some mad gutter vibes. Some straight winter hood steez on this one and i love!

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