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Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Benjamin Banneker
American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer
Joseph Harris
British astronomer and economist
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer
James Bruce
British explorer
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician, mathematical physicist
François-César Le Tellier de Courtanvaux
French astronomer
Anders Johan Lexell
Mathematician
Mikhail Lomonosov
Polymath
Dom Bédos de Celles
French organ builder
Roger Joseph Boscovich
Croat-Italian physicist
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist, satirist
Richard Dunthorne
British astronomer
Georg Matthias Bose
German physicist
Nevil Maskelyne
Fifth Astronomer Royal, 1765 – 1811
John Campbell
British naval officer, navigational expert and colonial governor
John Michell
English philosopher
Maximilian Hell
Hungarian astronomer and Jesuit missionary
David Rittenhouse
American astronomer
Jérôme Lalande
French astronomer
William Wales
British astronomer
Sámuel Mikoviny
Hungarian astronomist, geographer, mathematician and educator
James Ferguson
British astronomer
Martin Knutzen
German philosopher
Pierre Le Roy
French clockmaker
Pierre Méchain
French astronomer
Johann Euler
Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician
Charles Messier
French astronomer
Charles-François Dupuis
French academic
Charles Mason
English astronomer and surveyor
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist
Antonio de Ulloa
Spanish general and scientist
Pierre Charles Le Monnier
French astronomer
Pietro di Martino
1707-1746
Jeremiah Dixon
British astronomer
Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank
Scottish advocate, judge and agriculturalist
Alexander Bryce
Scottish Church of Scotland minister, mathematician, astonomer, scientist and poet
Jean Saury
Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche
French astronomer
Franz Aepinus
Natural philosopher