1695 in science explained

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,^[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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Clocks as fashion statements. Online Clock.net. 2024-12-01.
2. Web site: Historical Practices of Pulse Diagnosis. Pulse Diagnosis. 2024-12-01. 2011-02-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20110201105934/http://pulsediagnosis.com/. dead. Wayback Machine.
3. Book: Leibniz, G. W.. Philosophical Essays. Indianapolis. Hackett. 1989. 0-87220-063-9. 138.