High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bartolomeu de Gusmao, born Bartolomeu Lourenco de Gusmao (1685, Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil – November 18, 1724, Toledo, Spain), was a priest and naturalist born in the so Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design. Gusmao began his novitiate in the Society of Jesus at Bahia when he was about fifteen years old, but left the order in 1701. He went to Portugal and found a patron at Lisbon in the person of the Marques d'Abrantes. He completed his course of study at the University of Coimbra, devoting his attention principally to philology and mathematics, but received the title of Doctor of Canon Law (related to Theology). He is said to have had a remarkable memory and a great command of languages. In 1709 he presented a petition to King John V of Portugal, seeking royal favour for his invention of an airship, in which he expressed the greatest confidence.

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