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an English mathematician and silk-weaver. He wrote articles and books devoting special attention to improving the art of gunnery, and during at least twenty-one years from 1671 conducted some thousands of experiments with cannon mounted at his own expense on Wimbledon Common, showing that his means must have been considerable.
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  • ‘Stereometrical Propositions variously applicable, but particularly intended for Gageing,’ 1668, an ingenious, though uncouth little work, condemned by J. Gregory as ‘pitiful stuff’ (Correspondence of Scientific Men (Rigaud), ii....
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John Trapp1601, Jun 51622
 
16691669, Oct 16
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William Prynne16001627
 
16691669, Oct 24
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John Webb16111628
 
16691672, Oct 24
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Madeleine de Souvre15991640
 
16691678, Jan 16
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Robert Bayfield16291650
 
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Sarah Blackborowunknown1650
 
1669unknown
 the author of tracts that strongly influenced Quaker thinking on social problems and the theologi...
Benjamin Agusunknown1660
 
1669unknown
 an English divine, and was one of the most distinguished of the earlier vindicators of the noncon...
Antoine Baudeau de Somaize1630 ca1660
 
1669unknown
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Diarmaid Mac an Bhairdunknown1670
 
 
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William Broughunknown1630
 
16711671
 an English royalist churchman, Dean of Gloucester from 1643. Brough was a supporter of William La...
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisighunknown1640
 
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1672unknown
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16731673, May 19
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Adam Vaclav Michna z Otradovic1600, Jun 301633
 
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Salvator Rosa1615, Jun 20/Jul 211634
 
16731673, Mar 15
 an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence. A...
Moliere1622, Jan 151643
 
16731673, Feb 17
 a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in We...
Robert Herrick1591, Aug1623
 
16741674, Oct
 a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. T...
John Milton1608, Dec 91623
 
16741674, Nov 8
 an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of Engl...
Lucidor16381669
 
 
16741674, Aug 13
 a Swedish baroque poet. He is remembered for his burlesque poetry that is seen as foreshadowing t...
Thomas Hobbes1588, Apr 51608
 
16751679, Dec 4
 an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book L...
Roger Williams1603, Dec 21 ca1628
 
16761683, Jan-Mar
 a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian, and later a Reformed Baptist who was expelled by the P...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini1598, Dec 71609
 
16781680, Nov 28
 an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc...
Thomas Adyunknown1630
 
1679unknown
 an English physician and humanist who was the author of three sceptical books on witchcraft and w...
Thomas Watson [2]1620 ca1646
 
16791686
 an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author. He showed strong Presbyterian views durin...
Henry Fellunknown1650
 
1679unknown
 a Quaker missionary and writer. The first mention of him is in 1656 as suffering much from the ma...
Zhang Renxiunknown1670
 
 
1679unknown
 a noted Chinese poetical critic, who flourished in the 17th century. He was the author of the ...
George Hartgillunknown1590
 
168unknown
 an English astronomer. Hartgill was in considerable repute during Elizabeth I's reign, from his k...
Denzil Holles1599, Oct 311624
 
16801680, Feb 17
 an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the Five Members whose attempted unconstitu...
William Robertsonunknown1650
 
1680unknown
 a Scottish Hebraist. He was educated at Edinburgh University, taught Hebrew in London from 1653â€...
Thomas Browne1605, Oct 191637
 
16821682, Oct 19
 an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields i...
Uilliam O Duinninunknown1670
 
 
1682unknown
 an Irish scribe. Not much is known about him. The son of Domhnall Óg Ó Duinnín, Uilliam was th...
Guarino Guarini1624, Jan 71648
 
16831683, Mar 6
 an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque and Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. H...
John Archerunknown1660
 
1684unknown
 a court physician in the reign of Charles II. Of his origin nothing is certainly known; but he wa...
Edmund Waller1606, Mar 31624
 
16861687, Oct 21
 an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and ...
Basil Ringroseunknown1653
 
1686unknown
 surgeon and cartographer ……runaway indentured servant who joined Bartholomew Sharp's "Pacific...
Ferrand Spenceunknown1682
 
 
1686unknown
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Ferghal Dubh O Gadhraunknown1655
 
1686+unknown
 an Irish cleric and scribe. O Gadhra was the compiler of the O Gara Manuscript (now RIA MS 23 F 1...
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16881688, Aug 31
 an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory
Anna Weamysunknown1650
 
1688unknown
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Elizabeth Cellierunknown1668
 
1688unknown
 a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 fo...
Aphra Behn1640, Dec 14 ca1670
 
 
16881689, Apr 16
 a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the...
Raveneau de Lussanunknown1679
 
 
1688unknown
 a French buccaneer. In 1679 he embarked for Santo Domingo in search of fortune, but was unsuccess...
Claude Bendierunknown1670
 
 
16891677
 a doctor of the Sorbonne, canon of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, and a well-known French bibliophile. Bor...
John Bradshawunknown1670
 
 
1689unknown
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Jasper Danckaerts1639, May 71670
 
 
16891703 ca
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David Abercrombyunknown1680
 
 
16891702
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William Addyunknown1680
 
 
1689unknown
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Colonel Cuthbert Potter1637 ca1653
 
16901691
 Born in England and died in Barbados. He practiced law in Lancaster County, Virginia, as early as...
Rhys Cadwaladrunknown1666
 
16901690
 a Welsh language poet and classical scholar, born in Conwy, north Wales. Died in 1690. He wrote a...
Eoghan O Donnghaileunknown1690
 
 
1690unknown
 an Irish poet. Eugene O'Curry wrote of Ó Donnghaile in his Manners and Customs , saying that: "...
Michael Wigglesworth16311651
 
16911705
 a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early N...
Samuel Pepys1633, Feb 231655
 
16911703, May 26
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John Evelyn1620, Oct 311640
 
16941706, Feb 27
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Matsuo Basho16441662
 
16941694
 the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bash? was recognized for hi...
Daibhidh O Duibhgheannainunknown1651
 
1696unknown
 an active Iriish scribe, compiler and poet between the years 1651 and 1696. In the earliest of hi...
Edward Phillips1630, Aug1651
 
16961696 ca
 an English author. His most important work is Theatrum poetarum (1675), a list of the chie...
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal1626, Feb 51651
 
16961696, Apr 17
 a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their...
William Wycherley1641 ca1659
 
16971716, Jan 1
 an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife ...
Gaspar Sanz16401660
 
16971710
 an Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the ...
Alexandre-Olivier Exquemelin16451669
 
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 a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourceboo...
Thomas Neale16411664
 
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John Fryer1650 ca1671
 
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 an English doctor and Fellow of the Royal Society, now best remembered for his descriptions of tr...
Joan Baptista Aguilarunknown1655
 
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 a dramatic author and poet who lived in Valencia, Spain from his birth until his death in 1714. I...
Reuben Bourneunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 an English dramatist. Bourne belonged to the Middle Temple, and left behind him a comedy which ha...
Richard Duckworthunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 an English campanologist. Duckworth, a native of Leicestershire, is probably identical with the R...
Henry Higden16451690
 
1699unknown
 an English poet and dramatist. Higden was a Yorkshireman, and a member of the Middle Temple. He i...
Carlo Giuseppe Imbonatiunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 a Cistercian scholar who was active during the last half of the 17th century. He spent much of hi...
John Ayresunknown1680
 
1700unknown
 an English author, scribe and publisher. About 1680 he commenced the execution and publication of...
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet1627, Sep 271643
 
17011704, Apr 12
 a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been conside...
Roger L'Estrange1616, Dec 171639
 
17021704, Dec 11
 an English pamphleteer, author and staunch defender of Royalist claims. L'Estrange was involved i...
Philipp Spener1635, Jan 131653
 
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John Locke1632, Aug 291660
 
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Estephan El Douaihy1630, Aug 21670
 
17041704, May 3
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Charles Montagu1661, Apr 161683
 
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 an English poet and statesman. In 1685, Montagu's verses on the death of King Charles II made suc...
Thomas Edwards [3]16521685
 
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Jacques de la Fayeunknown1690
 
1709unknown
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux1636, Nov 11656
 
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Francisco de Artiga16501670
 
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 an engraver, an architect, a mathematician, and an author of reputation. He painted several 'Siby...
Haquin Spegel1645, Jun 141670
 
17141714, Apr 17
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Samuel Garth16611691
 
17141719, Jan 18
 an English physician and poet. In 1697 he delivered the Harveian Oration, in which he advo...
William Congreve [1]1670, Jan 241692
 
17141729, Jan 19
 an English playwright and poet. William Congreve is seen as the man who shaped the English comedy...
William Dampier1651, Sep1673
 
17151715, Mar
 the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumn...
Karen Brahe1657, Dec 11683
 
17171736, Sep 27
 a Danish aristocrat and book-collector. Karen became an able administrator of her father's estate...
Naphtali Cohen16491690
 
17181718
 a Russo-German rabbi and kabalist born in Ostrowo in Ukraine. He belonged to a family of rabbis i...
Samuel Schotten16441685
 
17191719, Jul 5
  He became Rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1685. Shmuel Schotten HaCohen was born ...
Joseph Addison1672, May 11693
 
17191719, Jun 17
 an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lanc...
Willem Sewel1653, Apr1668
 
17201720, Mar
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Thomas d'Urfey16531676
 
17201723, Feb 26
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Pierre Daniel Huet1630, Feb 81651
 
17211721, Jan 26
 a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Academie du Physiq...
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach1656, Jul 201671
 
17231723, Apr 5
 an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundl...
Isaac Newton1642, Dec 251665
 
17261726, Mar 20
 an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who ...
Cotton Mather1663, Feb 121685
 
17261728, Feb 13
 a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphle...
Richard Blackmore1654, Jan 221682
 
17271729, Oct 9
 an English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example ...
Matthew Tindal16571678
 
17331733, Aug 16
 an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, ...
John Arbuthnot1667, Apr1685
 
17351735, Feb 27
 a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contribution...
Jethro Tull16741693
 
17401741, Feb 21
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Melchior de Polignac1661, Oct 111683
 
17421742, Nov 20
 a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet. During the last years of Louis XIV, Abbé de Poli...
Alain-Rene Lesage1668, May 61695
 
17431747, Nov 17
 a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two ...
Charlotte-Catherine Patin1672 ca1683
 
17441744
 a 17th- and 18th-century French writer and art critic. Granddaughter of medical doctor and letter...
Gavril Stefanovic Venclovicunknown1680
 
1749unknown
 a Serbian priest, writer, poet, orator, philosopher, and illuminator. He was one of the first and...
Aaron Hart16701692
 
17561756
 the first chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1...
Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin16661680
 
 
177unknown
 a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century. Granddaughter of medical doctor...
Constantin Christian Dedekind1628, Apr 21652
 
1781715
 a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songb...
Jonathan Swift1667, Nov 301690
 
 
1831745, Oct 19
 an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Torie...
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