of Malmesbury and Aelfric of Eynsham. The Abbey was the site of an early attempt at human flight when, during the early 11th century, the monk Eilmer of...

(Green) Eilmer of Malmesbury, the 12th-century flying monk (Yellow) Thomas Hobbes, the 17th-century Philosopher (Red) William of Malmesbury, the 12th-century...

Firnas's attempt at glider flight might have inspired the attempt by Eilmer of Malmesbury between 1000 and 1010 in England, but there is no evidence supporting...

Nishapur, Khorasan, Iran, and falls to his death as a result. c. 1010 Eilmer of Malmesbury builds a wooden glider and, launching from a bell tower, glides 200...

In the twelfth century, William of Malmesbury stated that the 11th-century Benedictine monk Eilmer of Malmesbury attached wings to his hands and feet...

which ended in heavy back injuries. The monk Eilmer of Malmesbury is reported by William of Malmesbury (c. 1080 – c. 1143), a fellow monk and historian...

Arabic-language poet Abbas ibn Firnas and the 11th-century English monk Eilmer of Malmesbury; both experiments injured their pilots. Leonardo da Vinci researched...

Cordoba but was injured while landing. In the early 11th century, Eilmer of Malmesbury, an English Benedictine monk, attempted a gliding flight using wings...

of the description of the flight of Eilmer of Malmesbury. Helinand wrote a work in Old French called Les Vers de la Mort ("Verses of Death") shortly after...

include the purported flights of the 11th-century Catholic monk Eilmer of Malmesbury (recorded in the 12th century) and the 9th-century poet Abbas Ibn...