| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cibot, Pierre-Martial | Occupied himself with astronomy, mechanics, medicine, chemistry, botany, geology, mineralogy, zoology, Chinese writing system | |
| 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 | |
| Milliet de Chales, Claude-François | Occupied himself with astronomy, architecture, calendars, geometry, mechanics, magnetism, optics, music, perspective, cartography, navigation | |
| Sylvius, Alexius | Occupied himself with physics, astronomy, calendars, geometry | |
| de Vitry, Édouard | Occupied himself with astronomy, archaeology, numismatics |