| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| de Almeida, José Bernardo | Occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, astronomical observations, medicine, pharmaceutics | |
| 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 | |
| de Vitry, Édouard | Occupied himself with astronomy, archaeology, numismatics |