| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hermanni, Jan | Occupied himself with sun dials | |
| Kircher, Athanasius | Occupied himself with hieroglyphs, magnetism, sun dials, Arabic, Latin, egyptology, archaeology, cryptology, combinatorics, optics, music, cosmology, medicine | |
| 1607 – 1627 | Noël, Étienne | Teacher of mathematics, literae humaniores, Aristotelian logic in La Flèche |
| 1654 – 1661 | Solski, Stanisław | Travelling scholar of mathematics, hieroglyphs in Istanbul |