1682 in science
The year 1682 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy
Discoveries
- Antony Van Leeuwenhoek discovers the banded pattern of muscle fibers.
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.
Medicine
Births
- February 4 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist and developer of porcelain manufacture (died 1719)
- February 25 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)
- March 24 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
- April 16 – John Hadley, English mathematician (died 1744)
- July 10 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716)
Deaths
- July 12 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (born 1620)
- October – J. J. Becher, German physician and chemist (born 1635)
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