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Bartolomeu de Gusmão

Portuguese scientist

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Lived 1685–1724, aged 39Portugal
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  • Era
    1685–1724
    Aged 39
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Updated 2026-07-20

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a Portuguese Catholic priest and naturalist born in 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 a device. He is also one of the main characters in Nobel Prize-winning José Saramago's Baltasar and Blimunda.

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