| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hermanni, Jan | Teacher of philosophy, rhetoric, theology, literae humaniores in Poznań, Lviv | |
| 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 |