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

Joshua Ward

1684 - 1761
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
1681-1755, active 1707-1730, mathematical instrument maker & map surveyor, English; British

Richard Glynne

1681 - 1755
1682-1771, physician; anatomist, Italian

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

1682 - 1771
active 1722-1747, mathematical instrument maker, Strand, London, England

Jonathan Sisson

1690 - 1747
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
1687-1748, instrument maker, Dutch

Jan van Musschenbroek

1687 - 1748
active 1720s, inventor, developed programmable looms using punched tape, French.

Jean-Baptiste Falcon

1690
1690-1762, politician, English; British

Wallop, John

1690 - 1762
1690-1999, fire engine manufacturer, Greenwich, England

Merryweather and Sons Limited

1690
bap. 1678, d. 1740, publisher; map maker; globe maker, English

John Senex

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

Jacob Leupold

1674 - 1727

Stephen Hales

1677 - 1761
1688-1742, scientist; professor at the University of Leiden, Dutch

Willem Jacob 's Gravesande

1688 - 1742
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
1686-1743, astronomer, Indian

Jai Singh

1686 - 1743
1688-1763, mathematical instrument maker; science lecturer, British; English

Francis Hauksbee

1604 - 1763
active 1712-1751, mathematical instrument maker, British; English

Benjamin Scott

1690 - 1751
1685-1746, man-midwife; surgeon, French

Jacques Mesnard

1685 - 1746
1683-1758, anatomist; surgeon, German

Lorenz Heister

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

Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari

1682 - 1766
1678-1752 or 1753, artist; portrait painter, Swedish, active 1700 - London

Hans Hysing

1678 - 1752
1687-1761, medallist, French

Jean Duvivier

1687 - 1761
1690-1754, anatomist; physician, Belgian

Henricus Josephus Rega

1690 - 1754
1677-1761, natural philosopher, English

Stephen Hales

1677 - 1761
1683-1744, natural philosopher; engineer, French born, active England

John Theophilus Desaguliers

1683 - 1744
1671-1744, clock maker; sundial maker, Austrian

Franz Antoni Knittl

1671 - 1744
1685-1761, industrialist, Swedish

Jonas Alstromer

1685 - 1761
c. 1680-1751, portrait painter; artist, British

Thomas Gibson

1680 - 1751
active 1710-1748, scientific instrument maker, English

William Deane

1690 - 1750
1683 -1741, pharmacist, German

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

1683 - 1741
1688-1752, surgeon; anatomist, English

William Cheselden

1688 - 1752
1677-1750, mathematician; astronomer; cartographer, German

Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr

1677 - 1750
1688-1768, geographer/cartographer, physicist & astronomer, French

Joseph Nicolas De L'Isle

1688 - 1768
1676-1739, physician; surgeon; writer; botanist, French

Reneaulme de Lagaranne, Michel-Louis

1676 - 1739
1688-1772, scientist; philosopher; mystic; theologian, Swedish

Emanuel Swedenborg

1688 - 1772
1681-1754, artist, draughtsman, engraver, painter, printmaker, French

J Rigaud

1681 - 1754
1676-1763, medallist, Swiss

Jean Dassier

1676 - 1763
active 1690-1760?, surgical instrument maker; cutler, London

John Best

1690 - 1760
1672-1755, astronomer; mathematician, British; English

James Hodgson

1672 - 1755
1689-1752, artist; painter, British

Isaac Whood

1689 - 1752
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