| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fournier, Georges | Occupied himself with hydrography, geography, navigation, trading, naval construction | |
| Hermanni, Jan | Occupied himself with sun dials | |
| Hoste, Paul | Occupied himself with navigation | |
| Kircher, Athanasius | Occupied himself with hieroglyphs, magnetism, sun dials, Arabic, Latin, egyptology, archaeology, cryptology, combinatorics, optics, music, cosmology, medicine | |
| Milliet de Chales, Claude-François | Occupied himself with astronomy, architecture, calendars, geometry, mechanics, magnetism, optics, music, perspective, cartography, navigation | |
| Pézenas, Esprit | Occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, astronomical observations, cartography, navigation, scientific instruments, logarithms | |
| 1654 – 1661 | Solski, Stanisław | Travelling scholar of mathematics, hieroglyphs in Istanbul |