Academic prose

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/43 - 1400)

William Tyndale (1494?-1536)

John Milton (1608-1674)

Adam Smith (1723-90)

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)

William Turner (1775 - 1851)

Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871)

William James (1842-1910)

Charles S. Peirce (1839 - 1914)

Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

Ernst Ising (1900 - 1998)