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1695 science
1695
The year 1695 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Technology
English clockmaker Samuel Watson produces the "Physicians pulse watch", the first watch with a lever that stops the second hand,Clocks as fashion statements Online Clock.net http://blog.onlineclock.net/clocks-as-fashion-statements/ 2024-12-01 i.e. a stopwatch.Historical Practices of Pulse Diagnosis Pulse Diagnosis http://pulsediagnosis.com/ 2024-12-01 2011-02-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20110201105934/http://pulsediagnosis.com/ dead Wayback Machine
Events
Gottfried Leibniz publishes his "New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances".G. W. Leibniz Philosophical Essays Indianapolis Hackett 1989 0-87220-063-9 138
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)
References
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