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<h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li>English clockmaker <a href="/facts/Samuel_Watson_(horologist)/6FHXfTkS">Samuel Watson</a> produces the "Physicians pulse watch", the first watch with a lever that stops the second hand,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> i.e. a <a href="/facts/Stopwatch/MpK39IG9">stopwatch</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Gottfried_Leibniz/cTc2er83">Gottfried Leibniz</a> publishes his "New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Denis_Papin/G4lboS2q">Denis Papin</a> moves from <a href="/facts/Marburg/XSAjT1NP">Marburg</a> to <a href="/facts/Kassel/uw1m2263">Kassel</a> and publishes <i>Recueil de diverses pièces touchant quelques machines</i>.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>February 2 – <a href="/facts/William_Borlase/wHYwMwBy">William Borlase</a>, <a href="/facts/Cornish_people/zxGlI9jK">Cornish</a> <a href="/facts/Naturalist/pSlAvbTX">naturalist</a> (died <a href="/facts/1772_in_science/zyDLwvxa">1772</a>)</li> <li>February 6 – <a href="/facts/Nicolaus_II_Bernoulli/YDQMyRpc">Nicolaus II Bernoulli</a>, <a href="/facts/Swiss_people/3ecWX2K6">Swiss</a> <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1726_in_science/bV9KT5z0">1726</a>)</li> <li>May 3 – <a href="/facts/Henri_Pitot/Wpmqn5yR">Henri Pitot</a>, <a href="/facts/Italy/tUf0PDYF">Italian</a>-born <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> <a href="/facts/Engineer/ph4TnHnG">engineer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1771_in_science/fXlqQLLE">1771</a>)</li> <li>August 4 – <a href="/facts/William_Oliver_(physician)/ecyRFx6z">William Oliver</a>, <a href="/facts/Cornwall/9A3TftFP">Cornish</a>-born <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1764_in_science/ok32J8n4">1764</a>)</li> <li>November 10 – <a href="/facts/John_Bevis/xW8yx8Bf">John Bevis</a>, English physician and <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (died 1771)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>January 26 - <a href="/facts/Johann_Jakob_Wepfer/4gf3T2aB">Johann Jakob Wepfer</a>, Swiss pathologist and pharmacologist (born <a href="/facts/1620_in_science/QsRAMg4f">1620</a>)</li> <li>July 8 – <a href="/facts/Christiaan_Huygens/GtBqoBVm">Christiaan Huygens</a>, Dutch mathematician and physicist (born <a href="/facts/1629_in_science/SMxIqVEN">1629</a>)</li> <li>December 30 – <a href="/facts/Samuel_Morland/12kvu9oo">Samuel Morland</a>, English inventor (born <a href="/facts/1625_in_science/JR96SdbS">1625</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Clocks as fashion statements". Online Clock.net. Retrieved 2024-12-01. <a href="http://blog.onlineclock.net/clocks-as-fashion-statements/" target="_blank">http://blog.onlineclock.net/clocks-as-fashion-statements/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Historical Practices of Pulse Diagnosis". Pulse Diagnosis. Archived from the original on 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2024-12-01 – via Wayback Machine. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110201105934/http://pulsediagnosis.com/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110201105934/http://pulsediagnosis.com/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Leibniz, G. W. (1989). Philosophical Essays. Indianapolis: Hackett. p. 138. ISBN 0-87220-063-9. <a href="0-87220-063-9" target="_blank">0-87220-063-9</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>