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)
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