18th-century alchemists

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

Italian occultist, alchemist, and impostor (1743–1795)

18th-century European adventurer and intellectual

Saxon alchemist (1682-1719)

German pietist theologian, alchemist and physician

Russian nobleman, field marshal and astronomer of Scottish descent (1669–1735)

Irish chemist

Dutch alchemist (1630-1709)

Dutch alchemist

Prussian pastor and politician (1732-1800)

German geologist (1724-1793)

English chemist and alchemist

Baltic German military personnel (1662-1707)

German chamberlain

German mystic

German rabbi

German Artist & Alchemist

French alchemist of the 18th century