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
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]).
Philip Henry Zollman (c. 1680-1748) was the Royal Society’s first Assistant Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, a post he assumed in 1723. He first landed in England in 1714, was trained in several foreign languages, and regularly corresponded with Leibniz.
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Derek Massarell, ‘Philip Henry Zollman, the Royal Society’s First Assistant Secretary for Foreign Correspondence’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 46, no. 2 (London, 1992), pp. 219-234.
Sir Conrad Joachim Sprengell (d. 1740) was a physician. He was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1719 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1721. Sprengell was knighted in 1725 and published the ‘Aphorisms of Hippocrates and Sentences of Celsus’ in 1735.
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(http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4191 [accessed 13 March 2017]).
Francis Annesley (1663-1750) was a barrister and politician. He was an MP in the Irish Parliament as well as MP for Preston and later Westbury. Annesley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1704.
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(https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27annesley%27%29 [accessed 5 April 2017])
Henry Hunt (d. 1713) came to work for the Royal Society in 1672/3. He worked as an assistant to Robert Hooke and was appointed Operator in 1676. He was was designated Keeper of the Library in 1696 and then Keeper of the Repository and Housekeeper
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Sir Henry Lyons, FRS, The Royal Society, 1660-1940: A History of its Administration under its Charter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944), 142.
Jean de Fontaney (1643-1710) was a Jesuit priest who led Louis XIV’s mission to China in 1685. He and his team were admitted to the Academie des Sciences and equipped with astronomical and geological instruments to collect information on their trip. Fontaney was also a distinguished teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the College de Louis le Grand. His work was published in the Journal des Scavans and Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences.
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David E. Mungello, Curious land: Jesuit accommodation and the origins of Sinology, University of Hawaii Press, 1989: pp. 329-330.