1695 in science
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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,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Events
- Gottfried Leibniz publishes his "New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 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)