Bartolomeu de Gusmão

Bartolomeu de Gusmão was a Portuguese naturalist, inventor, aircraft pilot, catholic priest, regular priest and writer (1685–1724). He was born at Santos and died at Toledo.

Bartolomeu de Gusmão in brief

Born
1685
Died
1724
Known for
naturalist, inventor, aircraft pilot, catholic priest, regular priest and writer
Place of birth
Santos
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Identity and origins

He also worked under the name O Padre Voador. His recorded language was Portuguese. His recorded confession was Catholic Church.

Career and activity

He was employed by University of Coimbra. Recorded position is chaplain. He belonged to Royal Academy of Portuguese History and Society of Jesus.

Catalogued works

8 works under this name are catalogued by Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1967 to 2001.

Notes pour le Rapport sur les progrès de la physiologie / Claude Bernard ; manuscrit inédit présenté et commenté par M.D. Grmek ; préf. de J. Dausset., dated 1979, held by Wellcome Collection. La fisiología : origen histórico de una ciencia experimental / José Luis Barona Vilar., dated [1991], held by Wellcome Collection. L'École Liégeoise de physiologie et son maître Léon Fredericq (1851-1935), pionnier de la zoologie chimique / [Marcel Florkin]., dated [1979], held by Wellcome Collection. Philosophie et méthodologie scientifiques de Claude Bernard / par Étienne Wolff, Christian Fouchet, Bernardo A. Houssay, Georges Canguilhem ... [etc.] Colloque international orgranisé pour la célébration du centenaire de la publication de l'Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale de Claude Bernard, 1965., dated 1967, held by Wellcome Collection. Les concepts de Claude Bernard sur le milieu intérieur / par Roger Heim, Bernard Halpern, Yvon Bourges, Bengt Andersson ... [etc.] Colloque international organisé pour la célébration du centenaire de la publication de l'Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale de Claude Bernard, 1965., dated 1967, held by Wellcome Collection. Ecrits physiologiques et médicaux / Descartes ; présentation, textes, traduction, notes et annexes de Vincent Aucante., dated 2000, held by Wellcome Collection. Physiologie et classification : relations historiques / Joseph Schiller ; traduit de l'anglais par les Docteurs F. et R.H. Polge d'Autheville., dated 1980, held by Wellcome Collection. La nécessité de Claude Bernard : actes du colloque de Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais des 8, 9 & 10 décembre 1989 / organisé par le Musée Claude Bernard & le CERIEP (Centre de recherche de l'Institut d'études politiques - Université Lumière-Lyon 2) ; sous la direction de Jacques Michel., dated [2001], held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 185 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

9 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Gusmão, Bartolomeu Lourenço de, Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal, 2023. Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão: o primeiro cientista brasileiro, Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, 2009. A sombra do mártir: visões da morte na peça histórica romântica Bartolomeu de Gusmão, de Agrário de Menezes, Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2018. Padre Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão: Inspiration for<i>Memorial do Convento?</i>, Romance Quarterly, 2003. Hibridização e vida social - um olhar comparativo entre Memorial do convento, de José Saramago e Bartolomeu de Gusmão: Inventor de aerostato, a vida e a obra do primeiro inventor americano, de Afonso E. Taunay. Azeredo Coutinho e a física do voo controlado de balões, Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física. INTERCÂMBIO ACADÊMICO INTERNACIONAL EM ENFERMAGEM PERIOPERATÓRIA: RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA NA GRADUAÇÃO, REME: Revista Mineira de Enfermagem, 2017. “Buying a Pig in a Poke”: The Problem of Elasmobranch Meat Consumption in Southern Brazil, Ethnobiology Letters, 2015. Dried Fish and Fishmeal as Commodities: Boosting Profitability for Artisanal Fishers in Namibe, Angola, Commodities, 2025.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 21 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 16 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1685Bartolomeu de Gusmão born at Santos.
  2. 1724Bartolomeu de Gusmão died at Toledo.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Bartolomeu de Gusmão”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q709516: Bartolomeu de Gusmão

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