Richard Poley (d. 1770) graduated B.A. from Queen’s College Cambridge in 1704. He was a Fellow of Queen’s College from 1717 to 1716. Poley was the Secretary to the British Envoy in Sweden from 1725.
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(http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27poley%27%29 [accessed 5 April 2017]).
Guy-Crescent Fagon (1638-1718) was the physician of Louis XIV of France. He was made an honorary member of the Academie des sciences in 1669 and ran the Jardin du Roi until his death
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-Crescent_Fagon accessed 30th March 2017
Pierre Chirac (ca. 1650-1732) was a French physician who served Philippe d’Orleans during his French and Italian campaigns during the War of the Spanish Succession. He became the latter’s first physician in 1715 and between 1728 and 1731 he was the first physician of Louis XV of France.
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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Chirac accessed 30th March 2017
Charles-Irenee Castel de Saint-Pierre (1658-1743) was a French clergyman and author. He proposed an international political organization be founded in Europe and influenced the thought of Kant and Rousseau. He was made a fellow of the Academie francaise in 1695.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Irenee_Castel_de_Saint-Pierre accessed 30th March 2017
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664-1783) was a Swiss mathematician and friend of Sir Isaac Newton. He involved himself in the calculus controversy between Newton and Leibniz.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Fatio_de_Duillier accessed 30th March 2017
Ralph Freman (1627–1714), of Aspenden, Hertfordshire, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Hertfordshire in 1685 and 30 April 1690
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Freman_(1627-1714) accessed 30th March 2017
Mauritius Antonius Cappeler (1685-1769), or Moritz Anton Kappeler, was a Swiss physician and naturalist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726, having published geological works on minerals and crystals.
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(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Anton_Kappeler [accessed 5 April 2017]).
Levinus Vincent (1658-1727) was Dutch damask merchant and Anabaptist. He was an avid collector of natural and man-made artifacts whose visitor book recorded 3,500 patrons, including Peter the Great. The contents of his collection were published in a catalogue entitled ‘Wonder Theatre of Nature’.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levinus_Vincent [accessed 5 April]).
Antoine Fagon (1665-1742) was a French clergyman.
Reference:
(https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Fagon [accessed 5 April 2017]).
Eric Benzelius the younger (1675-1743) was a Swedish priest, theologian, and librarian. He was Archbishop of Uppsala, Professor of Theology at the University of Uppsala, Librarian of the University of Uppsala, and the founder of Sweden’s first scientific periodical, the ‘Acta literaria Suecia’, which was published between 1720 and 1739.
Reference:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Benzelius_the_younger [accessed 5 April 2017]).