| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1750 – 1793 | Amiot, Jean Joseph-Marie | Occupied himself with astronomical observations, magnetism in China |
| Béraud, Laurent | Occupied himself with astronomical observations, magnetism, meteorology, combustion in Lyon | |
| Cabeo, Niccolò | Occupied himself with magnetism | |
| 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 | |
| Kochański, Adam Adamandy | Occupied himself with magnetism, cosmology, statistics | |
| Lana Terzi, Francesco | Occupied himself with physics, mechanics, magnetism, electricity | |
| Milliet de Chales, Claude-François | Occupied himself with astronomy, architecture, calendars, geometry, mechanics, magnetism, optics, music, perspective, cartography, navigation | |
| 1654 – 1661 | Solski, Stanisław | Travelling scholar of mathematics, hieroglyphs in Istanbul |
| Zucchi, Nicola | Occupied himself with physics, astronomical observations, mechanics, magnetism, optics, experiments |