It was here that many great works from Persia, China, India and Greece were collected and translated into Arabic, including works by Aristotle and Euclid.This culturally and linguistically diverse environment gave rise to innovations that would have lasting legacies in fields including algebra, geography, astronomy, medicine and engineering.Automata with talent During its tenure of some three-and-a-half centuries, the House of Wisdom was populated by a number of multitalented thinkers.Among these were the Banu Musa brothers three ninth-century Persian scholars who lived in Baghdad.