| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cabeo, Niccolò | Occupied himself with philosophy, mathematics, moral theology in Parma | |
| Cabeo, Niccolò | Occupied himself with magnetism | |
| Kircher, Athanasius | Studied philosophy in Münster, Cologne | |
| Kircher, Athanasius | Occupied himself with hieroglyphs, magnetism, sun dials, Arabic, Latin, egyptology, archaeology, cryptology, combinatorics, optics, music, cosmology, medicine | |
| 1654 – 1655 | Kochański, Adam Adamandy |
Studied philosophy in Vilnius
Interrupted and forced to flee by the Muscovite invasion in 1655 |
| 1655 – 1657 | Kochański, Adam Adamandy | Studied philosophy in Molsheim |
| Kochański, Adam Adamandy | Occupied himself with magnetism, cosmology, statistics | |
| 1651 – 1654 | Lana Terzi, Francesco | Studied philosophy in Rome |
| 1663 – 1665 | Lana Terzi, Francesco | Teacher of philosophy in Brescia |
| Lana Terzi, Francesco | Occupied himself with physics, mechanics, magnetism, electricity | |
| Milliet de Chales, Claude-François | Teacher of philosophy in Lyon | |
| Milliet de Chales, Claude-François | Occupied himself with astronomy, architecture, calendars, geometry, mechanics, magnetism, optics, music, perspective, cartography, navigation | |
| 1604 – 1607 | Zucchi, Nicola | Studied philosophy in Parma |
| 1614 – 1620 | Zucchi, Nicola | Teacher of philosophy in Parma |
| Zucchi, Nicola | Occupied himself with physics, astronomical observations, mechanics, magnetism, optics, experiments |