People by era
People Who Lived 1500 to 1800
9 people from 1500 to 1800 on Credible Theories, oldest first, each with a sourced profile.
Legendary and scriptural figuresBefore 1000 BCE1000 to 500 BCE500 BCE to 1 CE1 to 500 CE500 to 1000 CE1000 to 15001500 to 1800The 1800s1900 to 19501950 to today
Isaac CasaubonClassical scholar who redated the Hermetic texts1559–1614Isaac NewtonEnglish physicist, mathematician and alchemist1642–1727Francisco XiménezDominican friar who copied and translated the Popol Vuh1666–c. 1729William WhistonEnglish mathematician and translator of Josephus (1737)1667–1752James BruceScottish explorer who brought 1 Enoch to Europe from Ethiopia1730–1794Richard LaurenceOxford Hebraist and archbishop; first English translator of 1 Enoch1760–1838Kyokutei BakinEdo-period novelist; editor of the Toen Shosetsu (1825)1767–1848Bernardino DrovettiItalian-born French consul and antiquities collector in Egypt1776–1852John Williams (mineral engineer)Welsh mineral engineer who first described vitrified forts, 1777fl. 1777
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