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Biographies of alchemists and hermetic philosophers

These 72 biographies are a subset I have extracted from the Rice University Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries, a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and their contributions to science, compiled by the late Richard S. Westfall, Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. While the scope of Dr. Westfall's research is immense, the information is concise and very well organized.
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  • Georgius Agricola
  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
  • Johann Valentin Andreae
  • Elias Ashmole
  • Francis Bacon
  • Johann Conrad Barchusen
  • Johann Joachim Becher
  • Adam of Bodenstein
  • Anselmus Boetius de Boodt
  • Pierre Borel
  • Olaus Borrichius
  • Robert Boyle
  • Tycho Brahe
  • Giordano Bruno
  • Thomas Burnet
  • Tommaso Campanella
  • Gerolamo Cardano
  • Oswald Crollius
  • William Davison
  • John Dee
  • Jean Despagnet
  • Kenelm Digby
  • Gerard Dorn
  • Cornelius Drebbel
  • Joseph Duchesne
  • Lazarus Ercker
  • Robert Fludd
  • John Freind
  • Etienne-Francois Geoffroy
  • Leonhart Fuchs
  • Giambattista della Porta
  • Christopher Glaser
  • Johann Rudolph Glauber
  • Jacques Gohory
  • Nicolas Guibert
  • Johannes Baptiste van Helmont
  • Urban Hjaerne
  • Johann Juncker
  • Conrad Khunrath
  • Heinrich Khunrath
  • Johann Kunckel
  • Nicolaise LeFebvre
  • Nicolas Lemery
  • Andreas Libavius
  • Michael Maier
  • John Mayow
  • Michael Neander
  • Antonio Neri
  • Andreas Osiander
  • Theophrastus Paracelsus
  • Bernardo Perez de Vargas
  • Giambattista della Porta
  • Jr. Riolan
  • Guerner Rolfinck
  • Martin Ruland
  • Angelo Sala
  • Paolo Sarpi
  • Michael Sendivogius
  • Daniel Sennert
  • Petrus Severinus
  • Georg Ernst Stahl
  • George Starkey
  • Alexander Suchten
  • Otto Tachenius
  • Leonhard Thurneysser
  • Theodorus Turquet de Mayerne
  • Phillipp Ulstad
  • John Webster
  • Georg Wolfgang Wedel
  • John Winthrop
  • Ole Worm
  • John Francis Vigani