1682 in science

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The year 1682 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Discoveries
3 Botany
4 Exploration
5 Medicine
6 Births
7 Deaths

Astronomy

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

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

English naval surgeon James Yonge (1646–1721) publishes Wounds of the Brain Proved Curable, probably the first monograph in English on surgery of the head.

Births

February 25 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
March 24 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
July 10 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)

Deaths

July 12 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
October - J. J. Becher, German physician and chemist (b. 1635)