252 people found
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Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
British Baron
Hans Sloane
Irish botanist, doctor, and collector
William Dampier
British pirate and explorer
William Whiston
Theologian, historian, mathematician
Jan Antoni Poszakowski
Polish scientist
Stephen Hales
British scientist
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Georg Joseph Kamel
Czech pharmacist, botanist and missionary
Jacob Theodor Klein
German scholar
Herman Boerhaave
Botanist
Joseph-François Lafitau
French Jesuit missionary, Ethnologist, Naturalist
Engelbert Kaempfer
German botanist
Cadwallader Colden
Lieutenant governor, acting governor of the Province of New York
Jacob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Johan Lindestolpe
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Stephen Gray (scientist)
British astronomer
Michel Sarrazin
French physician and naturalist
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
Amédée-François Frézier
French scientist, spy and explorer
Christopher Polhem
Swedish inventor
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
German mathematician and philosopher
Li Ching-Yuen
Chinese martial artist
Mark Catesby
English naturalist, painter and etcher
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French scientist
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist
Samuel Clarke
English philosopher and clergyman
Willem 's Gravesande
Dutch physicist
Richard Richardson
English physician and botanist
Isaac Rand
Apothecary and botanist
Antonio Vallisneri
Italian scientist
Giovanni Poleni
Italian scientist and antiquarian
Joseph Sauveur
French mathematician
John Theophilus Desaguliers
French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
German physician and botanist
John Wilson
English botanist
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan
French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist
Francis Hauksbee
British physicist