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Pierre Belon, French naturalist, 1553 (1762). Belon (1517-1564), aged 36. Financed by the Cardinal of Tournon, Belon undertook extensive travels through Greece, Asia Minor, Arabia
Charles Plumier, French friar, botanist and botanical explorer, 1762. Plumier (1646-1702) was born in Marseilles. Appointed royal botanist by Louis XIV in 1693
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist, mathematician and astronomer, 1762. Huygens made important contributions in several scientific fields
Nicholas Lemery (1645-1715) French chemist. From Alexandre Saverien Histoire des Philosophes Modernes, Paris, 1762
Charles Plumier (1646-1704) French friar, botanist and botanical explorer, was born at Marseilles. Appointed royal botanist by Louis XIV in 1693
Pierre Belon (1517-1564) French naturalist, aged 36, 1553. From Histoire des Philosphes Modernes Alexandre Saverien, (Paris 1762). Copperplate engraving
Christiaan Huyghens (1629-1695) Dutch physicist. Pendulum clock: Wave theory of light. From Alexandre Saverien Histoire des Philosophes Modernes, 2nd edition, Paris, 1762. Engraving
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (Spinosa or Despinosa) (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher born in Amsterdam into a Jewish family who had fled Roman Catholic persecution in Portugal
Benoit de Maillet (1656-1738) French diplomat and traveller. He attempted to measure the age of the earth and came to the somewhat arbitrary conclusion that it was 2 billion years
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