1700–1799
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
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José Celestino Mutis y Bosio1732–1808 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured— - 2RJRocque Joaquin de Alcubierre1702–1780 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academics0 decades
- 3
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Juan Andrés1740–1817 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academics22 decades - 4
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María Andresa Casamayor1720–1780 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured— - 5
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Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo1679–1744 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academics6 decades - 6
Gerónimo Uztáriz1670–1732 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured— - 7VDValentin de Foronda1751–1821 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured—
- 8
Mateo Aimerich1715–1799 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured— - 9
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Josef de Mendoza y Ríos1761–1816 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured— - 10
Antonio Ludeña1740–1820 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured— - 11VRVicente Requeno1743–1811 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured—
- 12
Juan Francisco de Castro Fernández1721–1790 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academicsnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.