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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bartolomeu de Gusmão has received more than 168,318 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Bartolomeu de Gusmão is the 205th most popular inventor (down from 187th in 2019), the 204th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 155th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Brazilian Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Bartolomeu de Gusmão ranks 205 out of 426. Before him are Émile Baudot, David Schwarz, Raymond Damadian, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Henry Maudslay, and Narcís Monturiol. After him are Melvil Dewey, Shigeo Shingo, Oliver Lodge, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Yuan Longping, and J. Presper Eckert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1685, Bartolomeu de Gusmão ranks 14. Before him are Jean-Marc Nattier, Johann Maria Farina, Edward England, John Gay, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, and Farrukhsiyar. After him are Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, William Kent, Francesco Loredan, Dominikus Zimmermann, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, and Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. Among people deceased in 1724, Bartolomeu de Gusmão ranks 7. Before him are Pope Innocent XIII, Louis I of Spain, Gyeongjong of Joseon, Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, Johann Homann, and Edward Low. After him are Marie of Lorraine, Benedetto Luti, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, 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 204 out of 2,236. Before him are Wilson da Silva Piazza (1943), Candido Portinari (1903), Raoni Metuktire (1940), Luís of Orléans-Braganza (1878), David Luiz (1987), and Anfilogino Guarisi (1905). After him are Pedro Américo (1843), Afonso Pena (1847), Prudente de Morais (1841), Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain (1811), Oreco (1932), and Fernando Meirelles (1955).

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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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