CGCarlo Goldoni17071793Italian playwright and librettist celebrated for his witty comedies that mirrored the lives and values of 18th-century Venetian society
Carl Linnaeus17071778Swedish botanist and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature and is known as the 'father of modern taxonomy'
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon17071788French natural historian, mathematician, and cosmologist who directed the Jardin du Roi and authored the influential Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière