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1684/5-1761, medical practitioner; inventor of medicines, English

Joshua Ward

1684 - 1761
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John Perry

1669 - 1702
1668-1738, anatomist; physician; botanist, Dutch

Herman Boerhaave

1668 - 1738
1673-1751, active 1688-1751 horologist; scientific instrument maker, watchmaker, London, England

George Graham

1673 - 1751
active 1674-1760, surgeon, French

Petit, Jean Louis

1674 - 1760
1674-1702, active from 1695, mathematical, philosophical & nautical instrument maker, English

Thomas Tuttell

1674 - 1702
c. 1668-1728, scientific instrument maker; mechanic, English

John Rowley

1668 - 1728
1681-1755, active 1707-1730, mathematical instrument maker & map surveyor, English; British

Richard Glynne

1681 - 1755
active 1700-1737, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Edmund Culpeper

1670 - 1737
1682-1771, physician; anatomist, Italian

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

1682 - 1771
1663-1729, ironmonger; inventor of atmospheric steam engine, English

Thomas Newcomen

1663 - 1729
1682-1744, natural philosopher; optical instrument maker; mathematician, British; English

John Hadley

1682 - 1744
1674-1740, agricultural innovator; writer, English; British

Jethro Tull

1674 - 1741
1674-1731, 4th Earl of Orrery, nobleman; statesman; patron of the sciences, Irish

Charles Boyle

1674 - 1731

Sheerness Dockyard

1665 - 1957
bap. 1678, d. 1740, publisher; map maker; globe maker, English

John Senex

1678 - 1740
1674-1727, physicist; scientist; mathematician, German

Jacob Leupold

1674 - 1727
1668-1749, shipbuilder, English?; British

Acworth, Sir Jacob

1668 - 1749

Stephen Hales

1677 - 1761
1682-1745, garden designer; writer, English

Stephen Switzer

1682 - 1745

Gottfried Rothe

1679 - 1710
1677-1740, medallist, active Nuremburg, German

Georg Wilhelm Vestner

1677 - 1740
1688-1763, mathematical instrument maker; science lecturer, British; English

Francis Hauksbee

1604 - 1763
1683-1758, anatomist; surgeon, German

Lorenz Heister

1683 - 1758
1682-1766, scientist; anatomist, Italian

Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari

1682 - 1766
1662-1726, writer, Dutch

Jan van der Heiden

1662 - 1726
1678-1752 or 1753, artist; portrait painter, Swedish, active 1700 - London

Hans Hysing

1678 - 1752
1677-1761, natural philosopher, English

Stephen Hales

1677 - 1761
1668-1744, philosopher; historian; jurist; rhetorician, Italian

Giovanni Battista Vico

1668 - 1744
1671-1744, clock maker; sundial maker, Austrian

Franz Antoni Knittl

1671 - 1744
1683-1744, natural philosopher; engineer, French born, active England

John Theophilus Desaguliers

1683 - 1744

Herman Boerhaave

1668 - 1738
c. 1680-1751, portrait painter; artist, British

Thomas Gibson

1680 - 1751
1677-1750, mathematician; astronomer; cartographer, German

Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr

1677 - 1750
1670-1715, artist, Swiss

Johann Rudolf Schmutz

1670 - 1715
1662-1744, German

Johann George Volckamer

1662 - 1744
1683 -1741, pharmacist, German

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

1683 - 1741
1676-1739, physician; surgeon; writer; botanist, French

Reneaulme de Lagaranne, Michel-Louis

1676 - 1739
1676-1763, medallist, Swiss

Jean Dassier

1676 - 1763
1665-1714, monarch, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

Anne

1665 - 1714
1662-1694, Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland, reigned 1689-1694

Mary II

1662 - 1694
1668-1707, doctor; medical researcher; anatomist; pathologist; physician, Croatian-born Armenian

Giorgio Baglivi

1668 - 1707
1681-1754, artist, draughtsman, engraver, painter, printmaker, French

J Rigaud

1681 - 1754
1672-1755, astronomer; mathematician, British; English

James Hodgson

1672 - 1755
1663-1733, naval commander (admiral), British

George Byng

1663 - 1733
1669-1760, anatomist, active Paris, Danish-born; French

Jacques Benigne Winslow

1669 - 1760
1665-1727, engraver; medallist, Flemish

Norbert Roettiers

1665 - 1727
1672-1733, scholar, Swiss

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

1672 - 1733
1683-1760, King of Great Britain and Ireland, reigned 1727-1760

George II

1683 - 1760
1671-1734, cattleman; outlaw, Scottish

Robert Roy MacGregor

1671 - 1734