| Date | Person | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Giattini, Giovanni Battista | Occupied himself with philosophy, mathematics, physics, moral theology, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, logic, linguistics, horology | |
| Kinich, Jean Jérôme | Teacher of Hebrew, Arabic in Prague, Rome, Vienna, Dillingen an der Donau, Ingolstadt | |
| Kircher, Athanasius | Occupied himself with hieroglyphs, magnetism, sun dials, Arabic, Latin, egyptology, archaeology, cryptology, combinatorics, optics, music, cosmology, medicine | |
| Ricci, Matteo | Occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, sinology | |
| de Vitry, Édouard | Occupied himself with astronomy, archaeology, numismatics |