| 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 | |
| Giattini, Giovanni Battista | Occupied himself with philosophy, mathematics, physics, moral theology, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, logic, linguistics, horology | |
| Kinich, Jean Jérôme | Teacher of Hebrew, Arabic in Prague, Rome, Vienna, Dillingen an der Donau, Ingolstadt | |
| 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 | |
| Pickel, Ignaz | Occupied himself with astronomy, meteorology, forestry, topography, vehicular dynamics | |
| Pilgram, Anton | Occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, meteorology | |
| Sajnovics, János | Occupied himself with astronomy, linguistics | |
| 1654 – 1661 | Solski, Stanisław | Travelling scholar of mathematics, hieroglyphs in Istanbul |
| Sterr, Kaspar | Studied history, meteorology, classical literature | |
| Susliga, Wawrzyniec |
Studied astronomy, calendars in Graz
Study and work under Jan Decker |
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| Sylvius, Alexius | Occupied himself with physics, astronomy, calendars, geometry | |
| Zucchi, Nicola | Occupied himself with physics, astronomical observations, mechanics, magnetism, optics, experiments |