| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Kircher, Athanasius | Occupied himself with hieroglyphs, magnetism, sun dials, Arabic, Latin, egyptology, archaeology, cryptology, combinatorics, optics, music, cosmology, medicine | |
| 1654 – 1661 | Solski, Stanisław | Travelling scholar of mathematics, hieroglyphs in Istanbul |
| de Vitry, Édouard | Occupied himself with astronomy, archaeology, numismatics |