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Bartolomeu de Gusmão

1685 - 1724

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Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão (December 1685 – 18 November 1724) was a Portuguese priest and naturalist from Colonial Brazil who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air aerostat design, being among the first scholars at that time to understand the operational principles of the hot air balloon and to build a functional prototype of such device. He is also one of the main characters in Nobel Prize-winning José Saramago's Baltasar and Blimunda. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bartolomeu de Gusmão is the 202nd most popular inventor (up from 205th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 205th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Brazilian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Bartolomeu de Gusmão ranks 202 out of 426. Before him are Ottaviano Petrucci, Garrett Morgan, J. Presper Eckert, Georges Claude, Eunice Newton Foote, and Hovannes Adamian. After him are Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, Reginald Fessenden, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Royal Rife, and James Dyson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1685, Bartolomeu de Gusmão ranks 13. Before him are Brook Taylor, Johann Maria Farina, Jean-Marc Nattier, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, John Gay, and Edward England. After him are Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, William Kent, Dominikus Zimmermann, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Farrukhsiyar, and George Clifford III. Among people deceased in 1724, Bartolomeu de Gusmão ranks 8. Before him are Gyeongjong of Joseon, Louis I of Spain, Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, Johann Homann, Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Marie of Lorraine, Edward Low, Benedetto Luti, Glückel of Hameln, Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Johann Theile.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Bartolomeu de Gusmão ranks 206 out of 2,236. Before him are Nelson Freire (1944), Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (1848), Carlos Mozer (1960), Carlos Kaiser (1963), Hermeto Pascoal (1936), and Jennifer O'Neill (1948). After him are David Luiz (1987), Moderato Wisintainer (1902), Vera Fischer (1951), Waldemar de Brito (1913), Café Filho (1899), and Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil (1845).

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Among INVENTORS In Brazil

Among inventors born in Brazil, Bartolomeu de Gusmão ranks 2. Before him are Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873).

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