Simon Stevin (1548–1620) Gabriel Mouton (1618–1694) Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794) Pierre Méchain (1744–1804) Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749–1822) Adrien-Marie Legendre (1753–1834) James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907) Giovanni Giorgi (1871–1950)