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Black, George, fl1746-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 26

Black, John, fl1728-1766 (father of Joseph Black) 19

Black, George, fl1795-1801 (nephew of Joseph Black) 18

Wilson, Patrick, 1743-1811 (astronomer) 18

Home, Henry, Lord Kames, 1696-1782 (judge and philosopher) 11

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Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 10

Black, Thomas, fl1792-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 8

Dashkova, Princess Catherine, 1743-1810 (President of the Russian Academy) 8

Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer) 8

Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808 (physician) 7

Johnstone, James Hope-, 1741-1816 (3rd Earl of Hopetoun) 7

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist) 7

Crell, Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von, 1744-1816 (German chemist) 6

De Secondat, Charles Louis, 1689-1755 (known as Montesquieu | French philosopher) 6

Arbuthnot, Robert, fl1783 (secretary to the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland) 5

Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (historian, philosopher) 5

Alexander, AJ, fl1773 (Grenada) 4

Cottrell, George (ironfounder) 4

Hope, John, 1704-1781 (2nd Earl of Hopetoun) 4

Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4

Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4

Wall, Martin, 1747-1824 (physician) 4

Wilson, Alexander, 1714-1786 (professor of astronomy, University of Glasgow) 4

Black, Samuel, d 1792 (Brother of Joseph Black) 3

Dempster, George, 1732-1818 (agriculturalist) 3

Ferguson, James, fl1763 (Belfast (Northern Ireland)) 3

Hermann, JF, fl1779 3

Menish, Henry, 1735-1809 (physician and geologist) 3

Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859 ("Tertius", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 3

Quin, Charles William, fl1783 3

Birkett, Dolly, fl 1792-1797 (née Black | niece of Joseph Black) 2

Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2

Blaquiere, Sir John, 1732-1812 (1st Baron de Blaquiere | Chief Secretary for Ireland) 2

Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland (1726-:) 2

Caritat, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de, 1743-1794 (Marquis de Condorcet | French philosopher and mathematician) 2

Carron Company (1758-1982) 2

Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 2

Dundas, Robert, fl1781 2

Ferguson, Adam, fl1799-1816 (solicitor to Joseph Black) 2

Gascoigne, Charles, 1737-1806 (director of the Carron Iron Works) 2

Lambert, Richard, fl1770 (surgeon) 2

Robertson, William, 1721-1793 (historian, principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2

Roebuck, John, 1718-1794 (inventor) 2

St George's Hospital (1733-:) 2

Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828 (Scottish philosopher and mathematician) 2

University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 2

University of Glasgow (Scottish University)) 2

Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) 2

Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 (architect) 1

Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 1

Black, James, fl 1799 (Brother of Joseph Black) 1

Black, John, fl 1799 (nephew of Joseph Black) 1

Brand, George, fl1781 1

Burnett, George, fl 1771 (nephew of Joseph Black) 1

Cookworthy, William, 1705-1780 (porcelain manufacturer) 1

Dashkov, Pavel Mikhailovich, 1763-1807 (Russian engineer) 1

De la Rochefoucauld, Louis-Alexandre, 1743-1792 (French nobleman and politician) 1

Dobbin, Leonard, 1858-1952 (chemist) 1

Duclos, M, fl1989 1

Dundas, Robert, 1758-1819 (of Arniston | Solicitor General for Scotland; Lord Advocate) 1

Erskine, David Stewart, 1742-1829 (11th Earl of Buchan | Scottish antiquarian) 1

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (American statesman diplomat, scientist and philosopher) 1

Frederick II, 1712-1786 (King of Prussia) 1

George III, 1738-1820 (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | King of Hanover | London | England) 1

Goddard, Chris, fl1986 1

Gowdie, John, 1682-1762 (Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1

Graham, John, fl1773 (Brampton (England)) 1

Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1

Hall, Sir George, 1761-1862 (geologist and chemist) 1

Heath, James, fl 1788 (engraver) 1

Herschel, Sir William, 1738-1822 (astronomer) 1

Heysham, John, 1753-1834 (physician) 1

Macculloh, Ebeneezer, fl1782 1

Macintosh, George, fl1782-1783 (Glasgow (Scotland)) 1

Macpherson, Sir John, c 1745-1821 (1st Baronet | acting Governor-General of Bengal) 1

McKie, Douglas, 1896-1967 (historian of science) 1

Moir, George, 1741-1818 (minister of Peterhead (Scotland)) 1

Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 1

Nelson, Horatio, 1758-1805 (1st Viscount Nelson | Vice-Admiral of the White) 1

Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1

Raeburn, Sir Henry, 1756-1823 (portrait painter) 1

Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796 (philosopher) 1

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1723-1792 (English painter) 1

Robison, R, fl1763 1

Royal Dublin Society (1731-:) 1

Royal Medical Society (1734-:) 1

Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 1

Skene, George, fl1773 (Aberdeen (Scotland)) 1

Smith, Adam, 1723-1816 (professor of philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1

Somerville | Mr, fl1757 (grandson to John Gowdie, principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1

Stark, William, 1740-1770 (physician) 1

Terray, Antoine Jean, 1750-1794 (French administrator) 1

Thenley, James, fl1763 (Belfast (Northern Ireland)) 1

University of Oxford (c1096-:) 1

Walton, W, fl1764 (Upton) 1

Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766 (professor of theory of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1

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