1662 in science

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The year 1662 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

• February 16 - John Evelyn presents the basic text of his Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber to the College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning, probably the earliest treatise on forestry (it is published in book form in 1664).

Physics

• Robert Boyle publishes Boyle's law, in the second edition of his New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects (Oxford).

Statistics

• John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes information about births and deaths in London.

Events

• July 15 - The Royal Society receives its royal charter.

Births

• December 13 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer (d. 1729)

Deaths

• April 22 - John Tradescant the Younger, English botanist (b. 1608)
• August 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1623)