1695 in science
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The year 1695 in science
and technology
involved some significant events.
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
involved some significant events.
Events
- Gottfried LeibnizGottfried LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. He wrote in different languages, primarily in Latin , French and German ....
publishes his "New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances". - Denis PapinDenis PapinDenis Papin was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine and of the pressure cooker.-Life in France:...
moves from MarburgMarburgMarburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...
to KasselKasselKassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
and publishes Recueil de diverses pièces touchant quelques machines.
Births
- February 2 - William BorlaseWilliam BorlaseWilliam Borlase , Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist, was born at Pendeen in Cornwall, of an ancient family . From 1722 he was Rector of Ludgvan and died there in 1772.-Life and works:...
, English naturalist (d. 17721772 in scienceThe year 1772 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Cartography:* Johann Heinrich Lambert publishes seven new map projections, including the Lambert conformal conic, Transverse Mercator and Lambert azimuthal equal area.-Chemistry:...
) - February 6 - Nicolaus II BernoulliNicolaus II BernoulliNicolaus II Bernoulli, a.k.a. Niklaus Bernoulli, Nikolaus Bernoulli, was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family....
, Swiss mathematician (d. 17261726 in scienceThe year 1726 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Technology:* For clocks, the gridiron pendulum is developed by John Harrison, as a pendulum that compensates for temperature errors: a grid of alternating brass and steel rods is arranged so that the heat is...
) - May 3 - Henri PitotHenri PitotHenri Pitot was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the Pitot tube.He became interested in studying the flow of water at various depths and was responsible for disproving the prevailing belief that speed of water increases with depth.In a Pitot tube the height of the fluid column is...
, Italian-born French engineer (d. 17711771 in scienceThe year 1771 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Events:* Society of Civil Engineers first meets , the world's oldest engineering society.-Exploration:...
) - November 10 - John BevisJohn BevisJohn Bevis was an English doctor and astronomer. He is best known for discovering the Crab Nebula in 1731....
, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
Deaths
- July 8 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist (born 16291629 in scienceThe year 1629 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Botany:* In London, John Parkinson publishes Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris: a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permit to be noursed up....
) - December 30 - Samuel MorlandSamuel MorlandSir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet , or Moreland, was a notable English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century, a polymath credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power.-Education:The son of Thomas Morland, the rector of...
, English inventor (born 16251625 in scienceThe year 1625 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Chemistry:* Johann Rudolf Glauber discovers sodium sulfate in Austrian spring water.-Births:...
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