1695 in science

Christiaan Huygens

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)

References

1. "Clocks as fashion statements". Online Clock.net. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
2. "Historical Practices of Pulse Diagnosis". Pulse Diagnosis. Archived from the original on 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2024-12-01– via Wayback Machine.
3. Leibniz, G. W. (1989). Philosophical Essays. Indianapolis: Hackett. p. 138. ISBN   0-87220-063-9.