111 people found
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Joel Gascoyne
British cartographer and surveyor
John Harrison
English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
British Baron
Hans Sloane
Irish botanist, doctor, and collector
Jethro Tull
British agricultural pioneer, activist of the British Agricultural Revolution
William Dampier
British pirate and explorer
William Whiston
Theologian, historian, mathematician
John Warburton
English antiquarian, cartographer and herald
Stephen Hales
British scientist
John Lewis
English cleric and antiquarian, born 1675
John Houston
Scottish-Irish immigrant to Colonial America, great grandfather of Sam Houston
Cadwallader Colden
Lieutenant governor, acting governor of the Province of New York
Stephen Gray (scientist)
British astronomer
Herman Moll
English cartographer in the 18th-century
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
Mark Catesby
English naturalist, painter and etcher
John Anstis
English officer of arms and antiquarian
Samuel Clarke
English philosopher and clergyman
Richard Richardson
English physician and botanist
Isaac Rand
Apothecary and botanist
John Fox (biographer)
English biographer, born 1693
James Bradley
English astronomer; Astronomer Royal
Cyprian Southack
English cartographer
Roger North (biographer)
British politician, died 1734
John Ward
English teacher, supporter of learned societies, and biographer
John Wilson
English botanist
Ambrose Godfrey
German-English chemist, inventor of the fire extinguisher
Charles Gildon
British writer
Francis Hauksbee
British physicist
Philip Miller
British botanist
Richard Bradley
English botanist
William Sherard
English botanist
Gerard Langbaine
English biographer
James Sherard
British botanist
Susanna Lister
English natural history illustrator
Thomas Rowe
English poet and biographer
Isaac Kimber
English journalist and minister
John Clayton
1694-1773, American colonial botanist
Robert Wallace
Scottish minister and economist
Thomas Pigot
English academic