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1682 in science

The year 1682 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1681 in science, other events of 1682, 1683 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Astronomy 2 Botany 3 Exploration 4 Births 5 Deaths

Astronomy

• A comet is observed, which later becomes known as Comet Halley, after Edmund Halley successfully predicts its return in 1758

Botany

• John Ray publishes his Methodus plantarum nova, which sets out his system to divide flowering plants into monocotyledons and dicotyledons

Exploration

• René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle canoes down the Mississippi River, naming the Mississippi basin Louisiana in honour of Louis XIV

Births

• July 10 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716)
• Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)

Deaths

• Jean Picard, French astronomer (born 1620)

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