Historical Figures Born in 1707

Naturalist · 1707 – 1778

Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish naturalist whose book Systema Naturae established the modern system for naming and classifying living things, earning him the title "father of taxonomy" and making him one of the most influential scientific authors in history.

• Binomial nomenclature
• Systema Naturae

Mathematician · 1707 – 1783

Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, the most prolific mathematician in history, whose work shaped modern analysis, number theory, graph theory and mathematical notation.

• Euler's number e
• Euler's identity