1695 in science

The year 1695 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Technology

• English clockmaker Samuel Watson produces the "Physicians pulse watch", the first watch with a lever that stops the second hand,^[1] i.e. a stopwatch.^[2]

Events

• Gottfried Leibniz publishes his "New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances".^[3]
• Denis Papin moves from Marburg to Kassel and publishes Recueil de diverses pièces touchant quelques machines.

Births

• February 2 – William Borlase, Cornish naturalist (died 1772)
• February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1726)
• May 3 – Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (died 1771)
• August 4 – William Oliver, Cornish-born English physician (died 1764)
• November 10 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (died 1771)

Deaths

• January 26 - Johann Jakob Wepfer, Swiss pathologist and pharmacologist (born 1620)
• July 8 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist (born 1629)
• December 30 – Samuel Morland, English inventor (born 1625)