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1695 in science

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1695 in science

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Christiaan Huygens
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, i.e. a stopwatch.

Events

  • Gottfried Leibniz publishes his "New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances".
  • 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

References

  1. "Clocks as fashion statements".
  2. "Historical Practices of Pulse Diagnosis". Pulse Diagnosis.
  3. Leibniz, G. W.. (1989). "Philosophical Essays". Hackett.
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