| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Eschinardi, Francesco | Occupied himself with optics, civil architecture, military architecture, watchmaking, acoustics, cartography | |
| Kircher, Athanasius | Occupied himself with hieroglyphs, magnetism, sun dials, Arabic, Latin, egyptology, archaeology, cryptology, combinatorics, optics, music, cosmology, medicine | |
| Pickel, Ignaz | Occupied himself with astronomy, meteorology, forestry, topography, vehicular dynamics | |
| Soares, Diogo | Occupied himself with astronomy, cartography, geography, natural sciences, botany, topography, fieldwork | |
| de Vitry, Édouard | Occupied himself with astronomy, archaeology, numismatics |