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Mr

John Kay

1704 - 1780
1704-1782, active 1738-1777, science lecturer, philosophical, mathematical & optical instrument maker, Chichester, Sussex; London, England, British

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782

Thomas Simpson

1710 - 1761
1707-1783, mathematician; physicist, Swiss

Leonhard Euler

1707 - 1783
1709-1772, active 1734-72, mathematical, philosophical & optical instrument maker, lecturer, English

George Adams

1709 - 1772
1700-1772, physician to Empress Maria Theresa, Dutch

Gerard Van Swieten

1700 - 1772
1707-1778, naturalist; taxonomist, Swedish

Carl Linnaeus

1707 - 1778
1704-1781/1782, inventor of the flying shuttle, English; British

John Kay

1704
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1700?-1771, clockmaker; mechanician, British; English

Henry Hindley

1701 - 1771
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1721-1793, physician; surgeon, English; British

John Mudge

1710 - 1793
1710-1768, active 1734-1768, optical instrument maker, British; Scottish

James Short

1710 - 1768
1710-1776, lecturer; inventor; astronomer, Scottish; British

James Ferguson

1710 - 1776
1708-1772, active 1731-1770, optician, optical instrument & microscope maker and seller, London, England, English

John Cuff

1708 - 1772
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British

Christopher Pinchbeck

1709 - 1783
1703-1791, Church of England clergyman; founder of Methodism, English

John Wesley

1703 - 1791

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

1710 - 1782
1709-1776, active 1745-1776, mathematical instrument maker, British; English

John Bird

1709 - 1776
1710-1782, natural philosopher; astronomer, British

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

1710 - 1782

Charles Labelye

1705 - 1781
active 1752-1761, optician, previously a silk weaver, English; British

John Dollond

1707 - 1761
1704-1764, clock maker (NOT the inventor of the the flying shuttle), English

John Kay

1704 - 1764
1706-1790, natural philosopher; writer; revolutionary politican, American

Benjamin Franklin

1706 - 1790
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

James South

1710 - 1867
1706-1775, printer and typefounder, English; British

John Baskerville

1706 - 1701
active 1740-1760, optician, optical instrument maker, Italian

Biasio Burlini

1709 - 1771
active 1728, d. 1775

John Sigismund Tanner

1700 - 1775

James Short

1710 - 1768

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782
1709-1794, active 1761-1790, silversmith, English; British

Hester Bateman

1709 - 1794
1710-1767, 10th Earl of Buchan; draughtsman; engraver, Scottish

Henry David Erskine

1710 - 1767
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
bap.1706-1737, bone-setter, English

Sarah Mapp

1706 - 1737
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1701-1779, artist; portrait painter; art collector, English

Thomas Hudson

1701 - 1779
1709-1782, engineer, French

Jacques de Vaucanson

1709 - 1782
Comte de Buffon, 1707-1788, naturalist, French

Georges Louis Leclerc

1707 - 1788

Benjamin Franklin

1706 - 1790
1710-1790, chemist; physician, Scottish; British

William Cullen

1710 - 1790
1708-1787, painter; draughtsman, Italian

Pompeo Batoni

1708 - 1787
1709-1780, landscape engraver, French-born; British

Francis Vivares

1709 - 1780
1705-1779, portrait artist, Swedish

Fredrik Brander

1705 - 1779
1703-1772, itinerant oculist, English

John Taylor

1703 - 1772

Smart Lethieullier

1701 - 1760
Sir

James South

1710 - 1867
1709-1759, royal princess, British

Anne

1709 - 1759
1709-1777, poet; dramatist, French

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

1709 - 1777
1710-1777, printmaker; engraver, French born; active England

Pierre-Charles Canot

1710 - 1777
1704-1767, artist; engraver, German

Johann Jakob Haid

1704 - 1767