1662 in science
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The year 1662 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] 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).
[edit] 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).
[edit] Statistics
- John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes information about births and deaths in London.
[edit] Events
- July 15 - The Royal Society receives its royal charter.
[edit] Births
- December 13 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer (died 1729)
[edit] Deaths
- April 22 - John Tradescant the Younger, English botanist (born 1608)
- August 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (born 1623)
