| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| de Almeida, José Bernardo | Occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, astronomical observations, medicine, pharmaceutics | |
| Cibot, Pierre-Martial | Occupied himself with astronomy, mechanics, medicine, chemistry, botany, geology, mineralogy, zoology, Chinese writing system | |
| Coll, Martin | Occupied himself with medicine, botany | |
| 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 | |
| Skokowski, Manswet | Occupied himself with astronomy, mechanics, medicine | |
| 1654 – 1661 | Solski, Stanisław | Travelling scholar of mathematics, hieroglyphs in Istanbul |
| de Torres, Baltasar | Occupied himself with mathematics, optics, medicine | |
| de Vitry, Édouard | Occupied himself with astronomy, archaeology, numismatics |