Livros sobre o assunto:

1. Lennart Ege. Balloons and Airships, 1783-1973. Blandford. 1973: https://books.google.com.br/books?id=EgDwAAAAMAAJ&dq=Balloons+and+airships+Ege&q=+Galileo&redir_esc=y

2. Rodrigo Moura Vison. Geniais Inventores: Brasileiros à frente do seu tempo. Instituto Histórico Cultural da Aeronáutica. 2016.

3. Dianne Irving. Hot Air Balloons. Shell Education;Teacher Created Materials. 2011.

4. Charles Coulston Gillispie. The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation 1783-1784. Princeton University Press. 1983. Disponível em: https://books.google.com.br/books?id=gNX_AwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=The%20Montgolfier%20brothers%20and%20the%20invention%20of%20aviation%201783-1784%2C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

5. Justin D. Murphy. Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. ABC-CLIO. 2005. Disponível em: https://books.google.com.br/books?id=7pS1QpH8FRgC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Bartolomeu+de+Gusm%C3%A3o+balloon&source=bl&ots=GI1PyVQq6V&sig=2JiheZCBj8HZLXcNw2r5C85gwH8&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Bartolomeu%20de%20Gusm%C3%A3o%20balloon&f=false

6.  Francesco Lana Terzi Prodromo Ouero saggio di alcune inuentioni nuoue premesso All'Arte Maestra. Deutsches Museum. 1670. Disponível em: https://books.google.com.br/books?id=z-QfxdYEtd8C&hl=pt-BR&pg=PA44-IA3#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Artigos sobre o assunto:

1. MELDRUM, A. The Discovery of the Weight of the Air. Nature 78, 294 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078294a0

2. West JB. Torricelli and the ocean of air: the first measurement of barometric pressure. Physiology (Bethesda). 2013;28(2):66-73. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00053.2012

3. Gabbey, A. (1983). Lives and Works - Stillman Drake, Galileo, Oxford: Oxford University Press. The British Journal for the History of Science, 16(2), 202-203. doi:10.1017/S0007087400026868 : https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/abs/lives-and-works-drakestillman-galileo-oxford-oxford-university-press-1980-pp-x-100-095-paperback/1D600DF03743112A1284824D500A5181

4. CARR, H. The Pascal Commemoration on the Puy de Dôme. Nature 112, 114–115 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112114a0

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Sites:

1. Revista Time. A Sheep, a Duck and a Rooster in a Hot-Air Balloon — No Joke: https://time.com/3583782/hot-air-balloon-history/

2. American Physical Society. Novembro de 1783: November 1783: Intrepid physicist is first to fly: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/history.cfm

3. Revista WIRED. June 4, 1783: Balloons That Carry Passengers? It's More Than Hot Air:   https://www.wired.com/2012/06/june-4-1783-balloons-that-carry-passengers-its-more-than-hot-air/

4. Space.com. The First Hot-Air Balloon Flight: https://www.space.com/16595-montgolfiers-first-balloon-flight.html

5. Faculty fairfield. Francesco Lana-Terzi, The Father of Aeronautics: http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/lana.htm

6. Slate.com. The Drones of the Civil War: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/11/civil-war-hot-air-balloons-thaddeus-lowe-and-union-aerial-reconnaissance.html

7. Mountvernon. George Washington e Ballooning: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/george-washington-and-ballooning

8. Britannica. Jean-Pierre Blanchard: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Pierre-Francois-Blanchard

9. Real world physics problems. Física do balão de ar quente: https://www.real-world-physics-problems.com/hot-air-balloon-physics.html

10. Revista Nova, PBS. Descobrindo o Ar: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/earth/air.html#:~:text=1646%3A%20Pierre%20Petit%20tests%20Blaise,that%20the%20atmosphere%20has%20weight.&text=that%20the%20volume%20of%20air,later%20applied%20to%20all%20gases)

11. Revista Nova, PBS. A Short History of Ballooning: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/short-history-of-ballooning/

12. Pierre Petit: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Petit_Pierre/

13. TV Brasil - Padre Bartolomeu Gusmão (1/2) - De Lá Pra Cá - 02/11/2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8PUQVd2TnE

14. TV Brasil -Padre Bartolomeu Gusmão (2/2) - De Lá Pra Cá - 02/11/2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvSHJtWvSM

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Consultas realizadas na wikipedia, com muito bom senso é claro:

1. Francesco Lana de Terzi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Lana_de_Terzi

2. Francesco Lana Terzi: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Lana_Terzi

3. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Pil%C3%A2tre_de_Rozier

4. Bartolomeu de Gusmão: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeu_de_Gusm%C3%A3o

5. João V de Portugal: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_V_de_Portugal

6. Henry Cavendish: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cavendish

7. Antoine Lavoisier: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier

8. Ciência Todo Dia - Empuxo e o Princípio de Arquimedes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57qs91GBscU

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A maioria das imagens e vídeos estão em domínio público, são autorais de Invenções na História ou são cortesia de:

(Ampliadas e restauradas utilizando Inteligência Artificial)

1. Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels

2. Footage stock como oferecimento de copterural, do Pond5. https://www.pond5.com/pt/stock-footage/item/108364489-colorful-hot-air-balloon-epic-flying-above-mountain-over-fog

3. International Centre of the Roerichs: http://www.icr.su/rus/katalog/01.php?i=673

4. Tryitbeta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZhzDllYxuY&t=27s

5. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6949613f

6. Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier - Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques-%C3%89tienne_Montgolfier.jpg

7. Joseph-montgolfier.jpg - Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph-montgolfier.jpg:

8. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85095158/f1.item.r=Jacques%20Montgolfier.zoom

9. [NASA] The Big Bang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeUcjqqhNxM

10. [wellcomecollection.org] Galileo Galilei. Oil painting by an Italian painter, 18th (?) century. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xpn9z4z6/images?id=dabzf35y

11. [wellcomecollection.org] Milton visiting Galileo when a prisoner of the Inquisition. Oil painting by Solomon Alexander Hart, 1847: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/hpgkqymf/images?id=keux7gab

12. Italia Liberty: https://www.italialiberty.it/achillecalzi/

13. [wellcomecollection.org] Blaise Pascal, seated at his desk. Line engraving by J. Bein, 1844, after H. Flandrin: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y7rkhqyh/images?id=twcgktjr

14. [William Crochot via Wikimedia Common]s: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puy_de_D%C3%B4me_-_136.jpg

15. [wellcomecollection.org] Pascal's experiment in the Puy de Dôme to test the relation between atmospheric pressure and altitude. Oil painting by Ernest Board: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zpgq8m6z/images?id=pa89ty8v

16. [Otto-Lilienthal-Museum] Vacuum airship project of an Italian Jesuit priest Francesco Lana de Terzi: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/vacuum-airship-project-of-an-italian-jesuit-priest-francesco-lana-de-terzi-francesco-lana-de-terzi/jwFj8p8XMNdiLg?hl=pt

17. Imagens de Francesco Lana de Terzi: http://mir.k156.ru/aeroplan/de_bausset_aeroplane-03-1.html

18. [Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal] POIRSON, Jean Baptiste, 1760-1831 Carte d'Amérique divisée en ses principaux états / Dressée pour l'instruction, et sur les dernières Observations Astronomiques par J. B. Poirson, Ingénieur Géographe ; Gravé par Berlin. - Escala [ca 1:30000000 na Zona Equatorial]. - A Paris : Chez Jean, 1798. - 1 mapa : gravura, com traçados color ; 52,50x69,00 cm https://purl.pt/3757

19. [Benedito Calixto via Wikimedia Commons]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benedito_Calixto_-_Retrato_de_Padre_Bartolomeu_de_Gusm%C3%A3o.jpg

20. [Museu Paulista via Wikimedia Commons]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartolomeu_de_Gusmao_presenting_his_invention_to_the_Court_of_John_V.PNG

21. [Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal via Wikimedia Commons]: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Lisbon_before_the_Earthquake.jpg#file

22. [Georgio Domenico Duprà via Wikimedia Commons] Portrait of King John V of Portugal alluding to the Battle of Cape Matapan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D.JoaoVMatap%C3%A3o.jpg

23. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France] Figure de la Barque inventée en 1709 par Laurent de Gusman, Chapelain du Roi de Portugal pour s'élever et se diriger dans les Airs : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85095492/f1.item.r=Louren%C3%A7o%20de%20Gusm%C3%A3o.zoom

24. [Museu Nacional dos Coches] O Cortejo de Entrada em Lisboa de Monsenhor Giorgio Cornaro, em 1693: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/o-cortejo-de-entrada-em-lisboa-de-monsenhor-giorgio-cornaro-em-1693-autor-desconhecido/JQHiTENYrWsC4A

25. [Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal] Execution des criminels condamnées par l'Inquisition. - A Paris : chez Mondhare, [17--]. - 1 gravura : buril e água-forte, aguarelada ; 25,9x43,5 cm (matriz) https://purl.pt/6161

26. [Museo del prado]. Ascent of a Montgolfier Balloon at Aranjuez: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/ascent-of-a-montgolfier-balloon-at-aranjuez/223dfe91-0896-451a-8f80-b60b9c075e3a

27. [wellcomecollection.org] Paper Mills: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sxv76gtm/images?id=k4xs9m3q

28. [wellcomecollection.org]. Philosophical transactions: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/pwywk3sr/images?id=scxapyrr

29. [wellcomecollection.org]. Henry Cavendish, Chemist. 1731-1810:  https://wellcomecollection.org/works/g5ma4j42/images?id=y5hxthyv

30. [wellcomecollection.org]. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jq8dyu82/images?id=mx5yczds

31. [Grohmann Museum]. The Bookworm]: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-bookworm-carl-spitzweg/2AEU4e2l7s1sRg

32. [Chrysler Museum of Art]. The Little Cavaliers: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-little-cavaliers-edouard-manet/MgE3dAkUp3muNw

33. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Ardèche : Annonay: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10669212b.r=Annonay?rk=150215;2

34. [pixabay] Lareira: https://pixabay.com/videos/fire-fireplace-flame-burn-hot-44699/

35. [Pexels] kongming lanterna: Video by Kelly L from Pexels

36. [Pexels] Video by Peggy Anke from Pexels

37. [wellcomecollection.org]. Boyce in a laboratory at the Liverpool School: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/prpmrkmd/images?id=j57z44p8

38. [Pexels] Video Drone Footage of a Rock Formation: https://www.pexels.com/video/drone-footage-of-a-rock-formation-7895607/

39. Manuscrito dos Montgolfiers: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Manuscript_of_Montgolfier_describing_his_machine_1784.jpg

40. [Science Museum London]. Water-colour, oval, contemporary: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/water-colour-oval-contemporary-montgolfier-at-a/wAFrawbXQH0Xjg

41. [LIFE Photo Collection]. Air Ball. 1780-1799 Montgolfier Hot Air Balloons: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/air-ball-1780-1799-montgolfier-hot-air-balloons/rQHXL-NcfZL3XA

42. [Library of Congress]. Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883: http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.02562/

43. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Experience Aérostatique faite à Versailles le dix-neuf Septembre 1783. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55001955r/f1.item.r=Montgolfier#

44. [Palace of Versailles]. View of the Palace of Versailles around 1667-1668: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/view-of-the-palace-of-versailles-pierre-patel/aQGAFOsvZUxaUg

45. [Palace of Versailles]. Louis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre (1754-1793): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antoine-Fran%C3%A7ois_Callet_-_Louis_XVI,_roi_de_France_et_de_Navarre_(1754-1793),_rev%C3%AAtu_du_grand_costume_royal_en_1779_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

46. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Experience Areostatique faite à Versailles: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55001953v.r=Montgolfier?rk=922751;2

47. [Science Museum]. Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/print-ascent-of-a-montgolfier-balloon/LwFI38F2qnwuyg

48. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. La Sphère Aréostatique ou Globe volant d'environ 12 Pieds de diamètre: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55001536v/f1.item.r=Jacques%20Montgolfier.zoom

49. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-François (1756-1785): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8509303c.r=Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Pil%C3%A2tre%20de%20Rozier?rk=107296;4

50. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Marquês D'Arlandes: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10335783f/f1.item.r=Marqu%C3%AAs%20D'Arlandes

51. [Science Museum]. Montgolfier balloon with the Marquis D'Arlandes an: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/montgolfier-balloon-with-the-marquis-d-arlandes-an/KAElp-RTFNMYjw

52. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Vue et perspective du jardin de Mr. Réveillon fabriquant de papiers, Fauxbourg St Antoine, à l'ancien Hôtel de Titon: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b550015557.r=Montgolfier?rk=3111603;2

53. [Met Museum] Franklin's Experiment, June 1752 - Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/850664

54. [Joseph-Siffred Duplessis via Wikimedia Commons]. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Franklin_(1706%E2%80%931790)_MET_DP-1255-001.jpg

55. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Décente de la Machine Aërostatique dans la Plaine au de la des Nouveaux Boulevards: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55001623g.r=Marqu%C3%AAs%20D%27Arlandes?rk=150215;2

56. Video by Grisha Grishkoff from Pexels

57. Video by Yeşua Cengiz from Pexels

58. Video by Poolside Creative from Pexels

59. [Science Museum]. The First Ascent of a Hydrogen Balloon from the Tuillerie: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-first-ascent-of-a-hydrogen-balloon-from-the-tuillerie/awEJ6Qfj6DIZ4g

60. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Expérience Aërostatique Faite à Lyon le 19 Janvier 1784: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85091985/f1.item.r=Jacques%20Montgolfier.zoom

61. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Acidente de rozier 15 de junho de 1785: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8410446q/f1.item.r=Jean%20Rozier.zoom#

62. [gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Vüe de Paris, prise du Palais de Bourbon: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55001502t/f1.item.r=Jacques%20Montgolfier.zoom

63. Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels

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