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Bartolomeu de Gusmão

Brazilian priest and naturalist

b. 1685 CE – d. 1724 CE World The Atlantic Lands

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão (1685, Santos, São Paulo, colony of Brazil – November 18, 1724, Toledo, Spain), is a Brazilian priest and naturalist born in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design.

Moran, J. (2017). Bartolomeu de Gusmão. History Atlas. Retrieved 7 October 2026, from https://www.historyatlas.com/people/bartolomeu-de-gusmao/

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