Mathematicians in Richard S. Westfall's archive

Richar Westfall's archive contains concise biographical details of more than 640 members of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries. The mathematicians are listed below.
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  1. Aguilon, Francois d'
  2. Angeli, Stefano degli
  3. Anthonisz, Adriaan
  4. Apian, Peter
  5. Arnauld, Antoine
  6. Auzout, Adrien
  7. Bachet de Meziriac, C.-G.
  8. Baldi, Bernadino
  9. Barocius, Franciscus
  10. Barrow, Isaac
  11. Bartholin, Erasmus
  12. Beaugrand, Jean
  13. Benedetti, Giovanni Batt.
  14. Bernoulli, Jakob
  15. Bernoulli, Johann
  16. Billy, Jacques de
  17. Bombelli, Rafael
  18. Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
  19. Bosse, Abraham
  20. Boulliau, Ismael
  21. Bouvelles, Charles
  22. Bramer, Benjamin
  23. Briggs, Henry
  24. Brouncker, William
  25. Brozek, Jan
  26. Buergi, Joost
  27. Buot, Jacques
  28. Buteo, Johannes
  29. Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Juan
  30. Carcavi, Pierre de
  31. Cardano, Gerolamo
  32. Cataldi, Pietro Antonio
  33. Cavalieri, Bonaventura
  34. Ceulen, Ludolph van
  35. Ceva, Giovanni
  36. Ceva, Tomasso
  37. Clavius, Christoph
  38. Collins, John
  39. Commandino, Federico
  40. Craig, John
  41. Crousaz, Jean-Pierre de
  42. Danti, Egnatio
  43. Dasypodius, Cunradus
  44. De Groot, Jan Cornets
  45. Debeaune, Florimond
  46. Dechales, Claude F. M.
  47. Dee, John
  48. Delamain, Richard
  49. Desargues, Gerard
  50. Descartes, Rene
  51. Digges, Leonard
  52. Digges, Thomas
  53. Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel
  54. Duerer, Albrecht
  55. Duhamel, Jean-Baptiste
  56. Fabri, Honore
  57. Faulhaber, Johann
  58. Fermat, Pierre de
  59. Ferrari, Ludovico
  60. Fine, Oronce
  61. Fink, Thomas
  62. Frenicle de Bessy, Bernard
  63. Gassendi, Pierre
  64. Ghetaldi, Marino
  65. Girard, Albert
  66. Grandi, Guido
  67. Gregory, David
  68. Gregory, James
  69. Grisogono, Federico
  70. Guldin, Paul
  71. Gunter, Edmund
  72. Halley, Edmond
  73. Hardy, Claude
  74. Harriot, Thomas
  75. Henrion, Denis
  76. Herigone, Pierre
  77. Hermann, Jakob
  78. Heuraet, Hendrik van
  79. Hooke, Robert
  80. Hudde, Jan
  81. Huygens, Christiaan
  82. Jones, William
  83. Keill, John
  84. Kepler, Johannes
  85. La Faille, Jean Charles de
  86. Lagny, Thomas Fantet de
  87. La Hire, Philippe de
  88. Lalouvere, Antoine de
  89. Lamy, Bernard
  90. Lansberge, Philip van
  91. La Roche, Estienne de
  92. Lax, Gaspar
  93. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
  94. Le Poivre,Jacques-Francois
  95. Le Tenneur, Jacques-Alex.
  96. L'Hospital, Guillaume de
  97. Magnitsky,Leonty Filippov.
  98. Maurolico, Francesco
  99. Mello, Francisco de
  100. Mengoli, Pietro
  101. Mercator, Nicolaus
  102. Metius, Adriaan
  103. Mohr, Georg
  104. Moivre, Abraham De
  105. Monte, Guidobaldo del
  106. Montmort, Pierre Remond de
  107. Mouton, Gabriel
  108. Mydorge, Claude
  109. Napier, John
  110. Neander, Michael
  111. Newton, Isaac
  112. Nieuwentijt, Bernard
  113. Nunez Salaciense, Pedro
  114. Ortega, Juan de
  115. Osiander, Andreas
  116. Oughtred, William
  117. Ozanam, Jacques
  118. Parent, Antoine
  119. Pascal, Blaise
  120. Pascal, Etienne
  121. Patrizi, Francesco
  122. Peletier, Jacques
  123. Pell, John
  124. Pitiscus, Bartholomeo
  125. Privat de Molieres, Joseph
  126. Ramus, Peter
  127. Recorde, Robert
  128. Reyneau, Charles Rene
  129. Rheticus, George Joachim
  130. Riccati, Iacopo Francesco
  131. Ricci, Matteo
  132. Ricci, Michelangelo
  133. Ricci, Ostilio
  134. Ries, Adam
  135. Roberval, Gilles Pers. de
  136. Rolle, Michel
  137. Roomen, Adriaan van
  138. Rudolff, Christoff
  139. Saccheri, Girolamo
  140. Saint Vincent, Gregorius
  141. Saurin, Joseph
  142. Schickard, Wilhelm
  143. Schooten, Franz van
  144. Schott, Gaspar
  145. Sluse, Rene-Francois de
  146. Snel, Willebrord
  147. Stampioen, Jan J. de J.
  148. Stevin, Simon
  149. Stifel, Michael
  150. Tacquet, Andreas
  151. Tartaglia, Niccolo
  152. Thomaz, Alvaro
  153. Torricelli, Evangelista
  154. Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried W.
  155. Tunstall, Cuthbert
  156. Turner, Peter
  157. Valerio, Luca
  158. Varenius, Bernhard
  159. Varignon, Pierre
  160. Viete, Francois
  161. Villalpando, Juan Battista
  162. Viviani, Vincenzio
  163. Vlacq, Adriaan
  164. Wallis, John
  165. Whiston, William
  166. Witt, Jan de
  167. Wittich, Paul
  168. Wren, Christopher
  169. Wright, Edward 
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