Editing 1695 in science

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

==Technology==
* English clockmaker [[Samuel Watson (horologist)|Samuel Watson]] produces the "Physicians pulse watch", the first watch with a lever that stops the second hand,<ref>{{cite web|title=Clocks as fashion statements|website=Online Clock.net|url=http://blog.onlineclock.net/clocks-as-fashion-statements/|accessdate=2024-12-01}}</ref> i.e. a [[stopwatch]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical Practices of Pulse Diagnosis|work=Pulse Diagnosis|url=http://pulsediagnosis.com/|accessdate=2024-12-01|archive-date=2011-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110201105934/http://pulsediagnosis.com/|url-status=dead|via=Wayback Machine}}</ref>

==Events==
* [[Gottfried Leibniz]] publishes his "New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances".<ref>{{cite book|first=G. W.|last=Leibniz|title=Philosophical Essays|location=Indianapolis|publisher=Hackett|year=1989|isbn=0-87220-063-9|page=138}}</ref>
* [[Denis Papin]] moves from [[Marburg]] to [[Kassel]] and publishes ''Recueil de diverses pièces touchant quelques machines''.

==Births==
* February 2 – [[William Borlase]], [[Cornish people|Cornish]] [[naturalist]] (died [[1772 in science|1772]])
* February 6 – [[Nicolaus II Bernoulli]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[mathematician]] (died [[1726 in science|1726]])
* May 3 – [[Henri Pitot]], [[Italy|Italian]]-born [[French people|French]] [[engineer]] (died [[1771 in science|1771]])
* August 4 – [[William Oliver (physician)|William Oliver]], [[Cornwall|Cornish]]-born [[English people|English]] [[physician]] (died [[1764 in science|1764]])
* November 10 – [[John Bevis]], English physician and [[astronomer]] (died 1771)

==Deaths==
* January 26 - [[Johann Jakob Wepfer]], Swiss pathologist and pharmacologist (born [[1620 in science|1620]])
* July 8 – [[Christiaan Huygens]], Dutch mathematician and physicist (born [[1629 in science|1629]])
* December 30 – [[Samuel Morland]], English inventor (born [[1625 in science|1625]])

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