1662 in science

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

Contents

1 Botany
2 Physics
3 Statistics
4 Events
5 Births
6 Deaths

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)