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    Francesco Lana de Terzi (1631 in Brescia, Lombardy – 22 February 1687, in Brescia, Lombardy) was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician, naturalist and...
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  • Look up Lana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lana may refer to: Lana (given name) Francesco Lana de Terzi (1631–1687), Italian Jesuit priest and scientist...
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    as hydrogen or helium. First proposed by Italian Jesuit priest Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670, the vacuum balloon would be the ultimate expression of...
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    descending by releasing a controlled amount of the substance. Francesco Lana de Terzi measured the pressure of air at sea level and in 1670 proposed...
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  • before the first manned hot-air balloon flight, the Italian monk Francesco Lana de Terzi envisioned a ship with four vacuum spheres. In a theoretically...
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    picture and description of his airship. Developing the ideas of Francesco Lana de Terzi,[citation needed] S.J., Gusmão wanted to spread a huge sail over...
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    suspect that the sheet music contained a message. However, as Francesco Lana de Terzi notes, this is usually not because the resulting cipher melody...
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    descending by releasing a controlled amount of the substance. Francesco Lana de Terzi measured the pressure of air at sea level and in 1670 proposed...
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  • engineer Francesco Terzi (c. 1525–1600), Italian painter Francesco Lana de Terzi (c. 1631–1687), Italian Jesuit and aeronautics pioneer Gianna Terzi (born...
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    painter Francesco Lana de Terzi (1631–1687), aeronautics and braille pioneer Carlo Bacchiocco, 17th-century painter with work in Brescia Paris Francesco Alghisi...
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