| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Béraud, Laurent | Occupied himself with astronomical observations, magnetism, meteorology, combustion in Lyon | |
| Kircher, Athanasius | Occupied himself with hieroglyphs, magnetism, sun dials, Arabic, Latin, egyptology, archaeology, cryptology, combinatorics, optics, music, cosmology, medicine | |
| Pickel, Ignaz | Occupied himself with astronomy, meteorology, forestry, topography, vehicular dynamics | |
| Pilgram, Anton | Occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, meteorology | |
| 1654 – 1661 | Solski, Stanisław | Travelling scholar of mathematics, hieroglyphs in Istanbul |