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Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799

Withering, William (MD, FRS)

1741 - 1799

Darwin, Erasmus

1731 - 1802

Banks, Joseph (Bt)

1743 - 1820

Reynolds, Richard

1735 - 1816

Coke, Thomas William (first earl of Leicester of Holkham)

1745 - 1842

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812

Priestley, Joseph (FRS, LLD)

1733 - 1804

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799

Jackson, Cyril

1746 - 1819
1738-1819, physician, Belgian

Hende, Jean-François-Laurent van

1738 - 1819
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1736-1818, traveller, author, Scottish, British

Brydone, Patrick

1736 - 1818
1737-1816, politician, chemist, lawyer, French

Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard

1737 - 1816
1747-1825, medal maker, French

Denon, Vivant

1747 - 1825
1741-1832, physician, French

Portal, Antoine

1741 - 1832
1738-1809, bookseller, British

Johnson, Joseph

1738 - 1809
1747-1821, landscape painter; diarist, English; British

Farington, Joseph

1747 - 1821
1747-1823, watchmaker; horologist, Swiss; French

Bréguet, Abraham-Louis

1747 - 1823
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Bowles, Carington

1724 - 1793
1739/40-1817, aeronaut; military theorist; army officer, English

Money, John

1739 - 1817
1737-1828, physician; inventor of an aerated water apparatus, British

Nooth, Dr John Mervyn

1737 - 1828
1737-1802

Williams, Thomas

1737 - 1802
1724-1792, civil engineer, English

Smeaton, John

1724 - 1792
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Banks, Sir Joseph

1743 - 1820
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

Wilkinson, John

1728 - 1808
1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Woulfe, Peter

1727 - 1805
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Arkwright, Sir Richard

1732 - 1792
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793
1745-1798, portrait painter; artist, German

Hickel, Karl Anton

1745 - 1798
1729-1799, priest; physiologist; biologist, Italian

Spallanzani, Lazzaro

1729 - 1799
1735 or 1736-1799, active 1762-1796, watchmaker; chronometer maker, British, English

Arnold, John

1735 - 1799
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
1736-1806, mechanical engineer; mathematician, French

Coulomb, Charles Augustin

1736 - 1806
1730-1795, potter; manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795
1742-1821, artist; collector, English; British

Cosway, Richard

1742 - 1821
bap. 1731, d. 1817, engraver, English

Hancock, Robert

1731 - 1817
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

Merlin, John Joseph

1735 - 1803
1740-1810, balloon pioneer, French

Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel

1740 - 1810
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
1741-1790, Holy Roman Emperor, Austrian

Joseph II

1741 - 1790
1734-1815, physician; astrologist, German

Mesmer, Franz Anton

1734 - 1815
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

Hargreaves, James

1720 - 1778
1734-1811, artist; painter; politician, English; British

Dance, Nathaniel

1734 - 1811