← Fame through time1700-1799
The 18th century
Whose working lives fell in the 18th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 18th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Giambattista Vico22 decades - 2
Cesare Beccaria22 decades - 3
Maria Gaetana Agnesi22 decades - 4
Giuseppe Piazzi22 decades - 5
Francesco Algarotti22 decades - 6
Jacopo Riccati14 decades - 7
Giovanni Gaetano Bottarinot measured- - 8
Giovanni Battista Viscontinot measured- - 9
Ermenegildo Pininot measured- - 10
Girolamo Francesco Cristianinot measured- - 11Filippo Aurelio Viscontinot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.