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1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi

1711 - 1778
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
1707-1778, naturalist; taxonomist, Swedish

Carl Linnaeus

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

John Kay

1704
1713-1772, physician; inventor of geomagnetic instruments, English

Gowin Knight

1713 - 1772
active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Justin Vulliamy

1712 - 1797
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Georg Friedrich Brander

1713 - 1783
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
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
1703-1791, Church of England clergyman; founder of Methodism, English

John Wesley

1703 - 1791
1708-1772, active 1731-1770, optician, optical instrument & microscope maker and seller, London, England, English

John Cuff

1708 - 1772

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

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

John Bird

1709 - 1776
1711-1788, active 1748-1776, optician, Edinburgh & London, Scottish; British

Thomas Short

1711 - 1788
1706-1775, printer and typefounder, English; British

John Baskerville

1706 - 1701
active 1752-1761, optician, previously a silk weaver, English; British

John Dollond

1707 - 1761
1710-1782, natural philosopher; astronomer, British

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

1710 - 1782

Charles Labelye

1705 - 1781
1706-1790, natural philosopher; writer; revolutionary politican, American

Benjamin Franklin

1706 - 1790
1704-1764, clock maker (NOT the inventor of the the flying shuttle), English

John Kay

1704 - 1764
active 1740-1760, optician, optical instrument maker, Italian

Biasio Burlini

1709 - 1771

James Short

1710 - 1768
1709-1794, active 1761-1790, silversmith, English; British

Hester Bateman

1709 - 1794
c. 1712-1777, painter; artist, English; British

John Cleveley

1712 - 1777

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782
1866-1883, railway company, United Kingdom

Llynvi & Ogmore Railway

628 - 1883
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1712-1780, physician; naturalist, English; British

John Fothergill

1712 - 1780
1714-1786, second earl of Stanhope, peer, English; British

Philip Stanhope

1714 - 1786
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Cullen

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

Pompeo Batoni

1708 - 1787
1703-1772, itinerant oculist, English

John Taylor

1703 - 1772
1711-1751, royalty; Prince of Nassau and Orange, Dutch

Willem Karel Hendrik Friso

1711 - 1751
1709-1759, royal princess, British

Anne

1709 - 1759
Sir

James South

1710 - 1867
1711-1770, politician; First Lord of the Admiralty, British; English

John Perceval

1711 - 1770
1704-1767, artist; engraver, German

Johann Jakob Haid

1704 - 1767
1705-1781, civil engineer; mathematician, Swiss

Charles Labelye

1705 - 1781
1703-1781, surgeon, French

Frère Côme

1703 - 1781
1711-1756, physician, anatomist, and physicist, German

Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn

1711 - 1756