Tito Livio Burattini

Tito Livio Burattini (Polish: Tytus Liwiusz Burattini, 8 March 1617 – 17 November 1681) was an inventor, architect, Egyptologist, scientist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer, and nobleman, who spent his working life in Poland and Lithuania.

[citation needed] For Germany in 1641, the court of King Ladislaus IV invited him to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

[5] According to Clive Hart's The Prehistory of Flight, he promised that "only the most minor injuries" would result from landing the craft.

[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Along with two others he met at Kraków, Burattini "performed optical experiments and contributed to the discovery of irregularities on the surface of Venus, comparable to those on the Moon".

[15] He made lenses for microscopes and telescopes, and gave some of them to Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici.