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John Harrison
John Harrison
1693 CE–1776 CE · Foulby
John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea.
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- Johann Bernoulli· 1667 CE–1748 CE
- Stephen Hales· 1677 CE–1761 CE
- René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur· 1683 CE–1757 CE
- Brook Taylor· 1685 CE–1731 CE
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit· 1686 CE–1736 CE
- Christian Goldbach· 1690 CE–1764 CE
- Pieter van Musschenbroek· 1692 CE–1761 CE
- James Bradley· 1693 CE–1762 CE
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis· 1698 CE–1759 CE
- Colin Maclaurin· 1698 CE–1746 CE
- Daniel Bernoulli· 1700 CE–1782 CE
- Émilie du Châtelet· 1706 CE–1749 CE
- Benjamin Franklin· 1706 CE–1790 CE
- Carl Linnaeus· 1707 CE–1778 CE
- Leonhard Euler· 1707 CE–1783 CE
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon· 1707 CE–1788 CE
- Roger Joseph Boscovich· 1711 CE–1787 CE
- Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille· 1713 CE–1762 CE
- Alexis Clairaut· 1713 CE–1765 CE
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert· 1717 CE–1783 CE
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi· 1718 CE–1799 CE
- Tobias Mayer· 1723 CE–1762 CE
- Joseph Black· 1728 CE–1799 CE
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- Yeongjo of Joseon· 1694 CE–1776 CE
- Elizabeth (Elizabeth Petrovna)· 1709 CE–1762 CE
- Osman III· 1699 CE–1757 CE
- Pontiac (Obwandiyag)· 1714 CE–1769 CE
- Karim Khan Zand· 1705 CE–1779 CE
- Mahmud I· 1696 CE–1754 CE
- Peter III· 1728 CE–1762 CE
- Mustafa III· 1717 CE–1774 CE
- Peter II· 1715 CE–1730 CE
- Maria Theresa· 1717 CE–1780 CE
- Baji Rao I· 1700 CE–1740 CE
- Frederick the Great· 1712 CE–1786 CE
- Hyder Ali· 1720 CE–1782 CE
- Tokugawa Yoshimune· 1684 CE–1751 CE
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