Erasmus 1536 Grotius 1645 Schiller 1805 Goethe 1832 _French._ Montaigne 1592 Joseph Scaliger. 1609 De Thou 1617 Pascal 1662 Molière 1673 Corneille 1684 Rousseau 1778 Voltaire 1778 De Staël 1817 ARTS AND SCIENCES. _Italian._ Galileo 1642 _British and American._ Harvey 1657 Sydenham 1689 Boyle 1691 Ray 1705 Newton 1727 Halley 1742 Dollond 1761 Bradley 1762 Brindley 1772 Harrison 1776 Franklin 1790 Arkwright 1792 Smeaton 1792 Hunter 1793 Black 1799 Priestley 1804 Maskelyne 1811 Watt 1819 Banks 1820 Cartwright 1823 Jenner 1823 Wollaston 1828 Davy 1829 _German and Swedish_ Copernicus 1543 Kepler 1630 Leibnitz 1716 Linnæus 1778 Euler 1783 Herschel 1822 _French._