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18th-century mathematicians

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Abraham SternArtist · WatchesAbraham Jacob Stern (1762 or 1769 – 3 February 1842) was a Polish Jewish maskil, inventor, educator, and poet. He is known for his mechanical calculators.
Adrien-Marie LegendreAuthor · BooksAdrien-Marie Legendre[3] (lang; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.
Andrew EllicottAuthor · Maps and atlasesAndrew Ellicott (January 24, 1754 – August 28, 1820) was an American land surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District…
Anne Isabella ByronAuthor · BooksAnne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was an educational reformer…
Anton von ZachAuthor · BooksAnton Freiherr von Zach (14 June 1747 – 22 November 1826) was an Austrian general with Hungarian ancestors, who enlisted in the army of Habsburg Austria and fought against the First French…
August Leopold CrelleDesigner · DesignAugust Leopold Crelle was a mathematician, state-certified engineers specializing in building construction, autodidact, architect, composer and collector (1780–1855).
August Ludwig von SchlözerAuthor · BooksAugust Ludwig von Schlözer (5 July 1735, in Gaggstatt – 9 September 1809, in Göttingen) was a German historian and pedagogist who laid the foundations for the critical study of Russian…
Auguste ComteAuthor · BooksIsidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.
Benjamin DonnAuthor · Maps and atlasesBenjamin Donn or Donne (1729–1798) was an English mathematician.
Caspar WesselAuthor · Maps and atlasesCaspar Wessel (8 June 1745 – 25 March 1818) was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer.
Charles Marie de La CondamineAuthor · BooksCharles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.
Christian MayerAuthor · Maps and atlasesChristian Mayer (20 August 1719 Mederitz – 16 April 1783 in Mannheim) was a Moravian-German Catholic priest, astronomer and teacher.
Colin MackenzieAuthor · Maps and atlases
Dionysius LardnerAuthor · BooksDionysius Lardner FRS FRSE (3 April 179329 April 1859) was an Irish scientific writer and science and technology populariser who edited the 133-volume The Cabinet Cyclopædia.
Dugald StewartAuthor · BooksDugald Stewart (22 November 175311 June 1828) was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician.
Ernst ChladniPerson · Music memorabiliaErnst Florens Friedrich Chladni (30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827) was a German physicist and musician.
Farkas BolyaiAuthor · BooksFarkas Bolyai (9 February 1775 – 20 November 1856; also known as Wolfgang Bolyai in Germany) was a Hungarian mathematician, mainly known for his work in geometry.
Francisco de Borja Garção StocklerAuthor · Books
François AragoAuthor · BooksDominique François Jean Arago (Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (lang; Francesc Aragó;
Heinrich BerghausAuthor · Maps and atlasesHeinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus (3 May 1797 – 17 February 1884) was a German geographer and cartographer who conducted trigonometric surveys in Prussia and taught geodesy at the Bauakademie…
Jean Sylvain BaillyAuthor · BooksJean Sylvain Bailly (15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.
Johan Ludvig HeibergAuthor · BooksJohan Ludvig Heiberg (14 December 1791 – 25 August 1860), Danish poet, playwright, literary critic, literary historian son of the political writer Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758–1841), and of…
Johann Tobias MayerAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohann Tobias Mayer (5 May 1752 – 30 November 1830) was a German physicist.
John Frederick William HerschelAuthor · BooksSir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer…
José Martín Espinosa de los MonterosAuthor · Maps and atlasesJosé Martín y Espinosa de los Monteros was a Spanish pilot and a mathematics professor, founder of the lineage Espinosa in southeastern Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula).
Joseph NicolletAuthor · Maps and atlasesJoseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786 – September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper…
Joseph-Louis LagrangeAuthor · BooksJoseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier;
Karl MollweideAuthor · Maps and atlasesKarl Brandan Mollweide (3 February 1774 – 10 March 1825) was a German mathematician and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig.
Konstantinos TzechanisAuthor · BooksKonstantinos Tzechanis (Constantinus Tzechani, Kostë Xhehani, 1740–1800) was a philosopher, mathematician and poet from the 18th century Aromanian center of Moscopole.
Leonhard EulerAuthor · BooksLeonhard Euler (OY-lər; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer.
Lorenz Christoph MizlerPerson · Music memorabiliaLorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof (also known as Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof and Mitzler de Koloff;
Lorenzo MascheroniAuthor · BooksLorenzo Mascheroni (loˈrɛntso maskeˈroːni; 13 May 1750 – 14 July 1800) was an Italian geometer and mathematician best known for proving that all Euclidean constructions achievable with a…
Nicolas Louis de LacailleAuthor · BooksAbbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (15 March 171321 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations.
Pedro Vicente MaldonadoAuthor · Maps and atlasesPedro Vicente Maldonado y Flores (November 24, 1704 in Riobamba, Royal Audience of Quito (today's Ecuador) – November 7, 1748 in London, England) was an Ecuadorian scientist who…
Peter Andreas HansenArtist · WatchesPeter Andreas Hansen (born 8 December 1795, Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark; died 28 March 1874, Gotha, Thuringia, Germany) was a Danish-born German astronomer.
Pierre MéchainAuthor · Maps and atlasesPierre François André Méchain (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe meʃɛ̃]; 16 August 1744 – 20 September 1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a…
Pierre-Simon LaplaceAuthor · BooksPierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics,…
Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachAuthor · BooksPrince Carl Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (30 May 1792 – 31 July 1862) was a distinguished soldier, who, in 1815, after the congress of Vienna, became colonel of a regiment in the…
Ruan YuanAuthor · Books
Ruđer Josip BoškovićAuthor · BooksRoger Joseph Boscovich (18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic…
Salomo SachsAuthor · BooksSalomo Sachs (Šəlomoh Sachs; born on 22 December 1772 in Berlin; died on 14 May 1855) was a Jewish Prussian architect, astronomer, Prussian building official, mathematician, drawing teacher…
Thomas Frederick ColbyAuthor · Maps and atlasesThomas Frederick Colby (1 September 17849 October 1852) was a British Army major-general and director of the Ordnance Survey (OS).
Tobias MayerAuthor · Maps and atlasesTobias Mayer (17 February 1723 – 20 February 1762) was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.
William WhewellAuthor · BooksWilliam Whewell (24 May 17946 March 1866) was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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